 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 600 pages
...erred ten minutes or more : that they were uncertain to three or four minutes, by reason thatTycho assumed a faulty obliquity of the ecliptic* and had...observations : and that the best lunar tables differ one quarter, if riot one third, of a degree from the heavens : and lastly, that he might have learnt... | |
 | Francis Baily - 1835 - 758 pages
...have been given him ; but cunningly answered they were feigned. I delivered them to Dr. Pell, Feb. 19, 1674-5 ; who returning me his answer some time...better methods than he proposed, from his countryman Morinus, whom he had best consult before he made any more demands of this nature. I heard no more of... | |
 | 1835 - 502 pages
...have been given him ; but cunningly answered they were feigned. I delivered them to Dr. Pell, Feb. 19, 1674-5 ; who returning me his answer some time...that the best lunar tables differ one-quarter, if not one- third, of a degree from the heavens : and lastly that he might have learnt better methods than... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 602 pages
...erred ten minutes or more : that they were uncertain to three or four minutes, by reason thatTycho assumed a faulty obliquity of the ecliptic, and had...observations: and that the best lunar tables differ one quarter, if not one third, of a degree from the heavens : and lastly, that he might have learnt... | |
 | 1836 - 1184 pages
...often erred ten minutes or more: that they were uncertain to three or four minutes, by reason thatTycho assumed a faulty obliquity of the ecliptic, and had...observations: and that the best lunar tables differ one quarter, if not one third, of a degree from the heavens: and lastly, that he might have learnt... | |
 | 1836 - 602 pages
...erred ten minutes or more : that they were uncertain to three or four minutes, by reason thatTycho assumed a faulty obliquity of the ecliptic, and had...observations : and that the best lunar tables differ one quarter, if not one third, of a degree from the heavens : and lastly, that he might have learnt... | |
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... hope to find the longitude of places by lunar observations, but not by such as he demanded. But, that we were so far from having the places of the fixed stars... 