Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 52; Volumes 1891-1892Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged. |
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Page 212 - Observer' at a salary of 100£ per annum, his duty being 'forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Page 325 - ... necessary share in human progress, the nature of which it would be well to examine. Seen in the proper light, the plainest function shows a spirit of worth and vigour, which far transcends its form— an essence needing only the clothing of a name to give it universal importance. The attempt, then, of this paper is to point out that there is such a principle behind the various aspects of advocacy, and that this principle is the development and security of social harmony and personal freedom....
Page 483 - ... system. In answer to a question he said that his theory explained why the aphelion distance of a comet is generally about the same as the distance of the planet which rendered its orbit elliptic. The author then publicly stated that there could be no longer a doubt that two planets exist beyond the orbit of Neptune, one about 100 times, the other about 300 times the distance of the earth from the sun, with periods of revolution of about 1000 and 5000 years respectively.
Page 205 - Observer and his assistants, be printed and published at the expence of the University : and copies of the same presented to the principal Observatories of Europe, viz. Greenwich, Oxford, Dublin, Paris, Palermo. That in addition to the capital instruments of the Observatory, there should be other instruments of less size and value, appropriated to the use and instruction of Academical Students.
Page 316 - A theory, reposing on vene cautce, which brings into quantitative correlation the lengths of the present day and month, the obliquity of the ecliptic, and the inclination and eccentricity of the lunar orbit, must, I think, have strong claims to acceptance.
Page 578 - Application was made to the Government Grant Committee of the Royal Society for a grant of £250 for the hire of a vessel.
Page 218 - AIRY, KCB, DCL, LL.D., &c., Astronomer Royal, as a recognition of his indefatigable labours in Astronomy, and of his eminent services in the advancement of practical science, whereby he has so materially benefited the cause of commerce and civilisation.
Page 6 - ... JUPITER AND HIS FIRST SATELLITE. — A series of observations of spots and markings on the planet Jupiter were communicated to the Royal Astronomical Society at the November meeting by Mr. Barnard. A careful study of numerous details observed during a period of twelve years has led to the conclusion "that the red colour of any of the markings is an indication of their age ; or in other words, when a spot or marking (other than the white spots) first appears it is dark or black, but after some...
Page 314 - ... twenty-four minutes ; and that if the moon were to revolve about the earth with this periodic time, the surfaces of the two bodies would be almost in contact with one another. The...
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| Title | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 52; Volumes 1891-1892 |
| Author | Royal Astronomical Society |
| Publisher | Priestley and Weale, 1892 |
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