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Astronomical Register: A Medium of Communication for Amateur Observers and ... - Page 256
1875
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Memoir of the Life and Labors of the Rev. Jeremiah Horrox: To which is ...

Arundell Blount Whatton - 1859 - 246 pages
...opportunity of observing her ingress. I watched carefully on the 24th from sunrise to nine o'clock, and from a little before ten until noon, and at one in the afternoon, being called away in the intervals by business of the highest importance which, for these ornamental pursuits, I could not with propriety...
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Lancashire Worthies

Francis Espinasse - 1874 - 494 pages
...only one, and that one a significant, intermission. In 1639, the twenty-fourth of November fell on a Sunday, and he describes himself as watching on...improper to neglect (aliis temporibus ad majora avocatus qutzutiqueob hac parerga negligi non dcatit)." In point of fact the Rev. .Jeremiah Horrocks had to...
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Lancashire Worthies

Francis Espinasse - 1874 - 498 pages
...only one, and that one a significant, intermission. In 1639, the twenty-fourth of November fell on a Sunday, and he describes himself as watching on...would have certainly been improper to neglect (aliis tcmporibus ad majora a1watus quce utiquc ob luze parerga ncgligi non dccuit)." In point of fact the...
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The Athenaeum

1874 - 898 pages
...hours with only one, and that one a significant, intermission. In 1C39, the 24th of November fell on a Sunday, and he describes himself as watching on...occupations it would have certainly been improper to neglect (aliit tewporibus ad majora avocatus qua utigue ob hcee parerga, negligi non decuif).' In point of...
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Lancashire Worthies

Francis Espinasse - 1874 - 494 pages
...only one, and that one a significant, intermission. In 1639, the twenty-fourth of November fell on a Sunday, and he describes himself as watching on...to nine o'clock, and also from a little before ten untilnoon, and at one in the afternoon, being called away in the intervals to matters of greater importance,...
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Transits of Venus: A Popular Account of Past and Coming Transits from the ...

Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 358 pages
...opportunity of observing her ingress. I watched carefully on the 24th from sunrise to nine o'clock, and from a little before ten until noon, and at one in...afternoon, — being called away in the intervals by business of the highest importance, which for these ornamental pursuits I could not with proprietyneglect.1...
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Transits of Venus: A Popular Account of Past and Coming Transits, from the ...

Richard Anthony Proctor - 1875 - 366 pages
...opportunity of observing her ingress. I watched carefully on the 24th from sunrise to nine o'clock, and from a little before ten until noon, and at one in the afternoon,—being called away in the intervals by business of the highest importance, which for these...
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Mysteries of Time and Space

Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 438 pages
...whole of the 24th. ' I watched carefully,' he says, 'on the 24th from sunrise to nine o'clock, and from a little before ten until noon, and at one in...afternoon, — being called away in the intervals by business of the highest importance, which, for these ornamental pursuits, I could not with propriety...
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The Observatory, Volume 6

1883 - 416 pages
...watched carefully on the 24th (Sunday), which was a clearer day, from sunrise up to nine o'clock ; also from a little before ten until noon, and at one in the afternoon. During the intervening hours I was called away to matters of higher importance, which for these pursuits...
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Transit When Planets Cross the Sun: When Planets Cross the Sun

Michael J. de F. Maunder, Patrick Moore - 2000 - 180 pages
...rd , and the whole of the 24 th , I watched carefully on the 24 lh from sunrise to nine o'clock, and from a little before ten until noon, and at one in the afternoon, being called away in the intervals by business of the highest importance which, for these ornamental pursuits, I could not with propriety...
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