 It was thus that the grand discovery of the precession of the equinoxes resulted, as a residual phenomenon, from the imperfect explanation of the return of the seasons by the return of the sun to the same apparent place among the fixed stars. Thus, also,...  Outlines of Astronomy - Page 769by John Frederick William Herschel - 1902Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - 1862 - 564 pages
...have resulted from the consideration of residual phenomena of a quantitative or numerical kind. . . . It was thus that the grand discovery of the precession...stars. Thus, also, aberration and nutation resulted as * Discourse, pp. 156-8, and 171. t Outlines of Astronomy, p. 584. residual phenomena from that portion... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1872 - 626 pages
...accounted for on the supposition that the solar system and that star are mutually receding from each other It was thus that the grand discovery of the precession...changes of the apparent places of the fixed stars which are left unaccounted for by precession. And thus again the apparent proper motions of the stars are... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1876 - 400 pages
...application of known principles 34. 33 Herschel's Outlines of Astronomy, Fourth Edition, §§ 767, 768. It was thus that the grand discovery of the precession of the equinoxes resulted as a residual phenomenon7 from the imperfect explanation of the return of the seasons by the return of the sun to... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1883 - 412 pages
...Fourth Edition, §§ 767, 768. " A very striking example of the employment of the Method of ResiIt was thus that the grand discovery of the precession...changes of the apparent places of the fixed stars which are left unaccounted for by precession. And thus again the apparent proper motions of the stars are... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1884 - 660 pages
...have resulted from the consideration of residual phenomena of a quantitative or numerical kind. ... It was thus that the grand discovery of the precession...return of the sun to the same apparent place among * DiMCOurse, pp. 156-158, and 171. t Outline* of Atlronomy, § 856. the fixed stars. Thus, also, aberration... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1884 - 664 pages
...have resulted from the consideration of residual phenomena of a quantitative or numerical kind. ... It was thus that the grand discovery of the precession of the equinoxes resulted ae a residual phenomenon from the imperfect explanation of the return of the seasons by the return... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1887 - 612 pages
...combination of deduction with observation which has been so eminently fertile in astronomical research. 'Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy...phenomena from that portion of the changes of the apparent 34 Herschel's Outlines of Astronomy, Fourth Edition, §§ 767, 768. places of the fixed stars which... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1895 - 620 pages
...combination of deduction with observation which has been so eminently fertile in astronomical research. 'Almost all the greatest discoveries in astronomy...changes of the apparent places of the fixed stars which are left unaccounted for by precession. And thus again the apparent proper motions of the stars are... | |
 | James Welton - 1896 - 374 pages
...have resulted from the consideration of residual " phenomena of a quantitative or numerical kind. ... It " was thus that the grand discovery of the precession...the same apparent place among the " fixed stars'" (Outlines of Astronomy, § 856, quoted by Mill, III.,ix., §5). Amongst examples of the Method of Concomitant... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1900 - 662 pages
...have resulted from the consideration of residual phenomena of a quantitative or numerical kind. ... It was thus that the grand discovery of the precession...of the return of the seasons by the return of the Bun to the same apparent place among * Ktcourse, pp. 156-158, and 171. t Outlines of Astronomy, §... | |
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