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... Transit of Venus Distance of the Sun from the Earth - Annual Parallax - Distance of the Fixed Stars 52 - SECTION VIII . Masses of Planets that have no Satellites determined from their Perturbations Masses of the others obtained from ...
... Transit of Venus Distance of the Sun from the Earth - Annual Parallax - Distance of the Fixed Stars 52 - SECTION VIII . Masses of Planets that have no Satellites determined from their Perturbations Masses of the others obtained from ...
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... Encke's and Biela's Comets Velocity of Comets - The Comet of 1264 — The great Comet of 1343 — Physical Constitution — Shine by borrowed Light Estimation of their Number 358 SECTION XXXVI . The Fixed Stars - Their Number · CONTENTS .
... Encke's and Biela's Comets Velocity of Comets - The Comet of 1264 — The great Comet of 1343 — Physical Constitution — Shine by borrowed Light Estimation of their Number 358 SECTION XXXVI . The Fixed Stars - Their Number · CONTENTS .
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The Fixed Stars - Their Number · The Milky Way - Double Stars Binary Systems Their Orbits and Periodic Times - Colours of the Stars Stars that have vanished - Variable Stars - Variation in Sun's Light - Parallax and Distances of the ...
The Fixed Stars - Their Number · The Milky Way - Double Stars Binary Systems Their Orbits and Periodic Times - Colours of the Stars Stars that have vanished - Variable Stars - Variation in Sun's Light - Parallax and Distances of the ...
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The difference between these two periods arises from a retrograde motion in the equinoctial point , which meets the advancing axis before it has completed its revolution with regard to the stars . The major axis of Jupiter's orbit ...
The difference between these two periods arises from a retrograde motion in the equinoctial point , which meets the advancing axis before it has completed its revolution with regard to the stars . The major axis of Jupiter's orbit ...
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But , if the fixed stars , comets , or any unknown and unseen bodies , affect our sun and planets , the nodes of this plane will slowly recede on the plane of that immense orbit which the sun may describe about some most distant centre ...
But , if the fixed stars , comets , or any unknown and unseen bodies , affect our sun and planets , the nodes of this plane will slowly recede on the plane of that immense orbit which the sun may describe about some most distant centre ...
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