 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...; and one o'clock in the afternoon of the former, to January 2 days 1 hour of the latter reckoning. This usage has its advantages and disadvantages, but...broken through, and the civil reckoning substituted. (120.) Both astronomers and civilians, however, who inhabit different points of the earth's surface,... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...; and one o'clock in the afternoon of the former, to January 2 days 1 hour of the latter reckoning. This usage has its advantages and disadvantages, but...broken through, and the civil reckoning substituted. (120.) Both astronomers and civilians, however, who inhabit different points of the earth's surface,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...reckoning; and 1 o'clock in the afternoon of the former, to January 2 days 1 hour of the latter reckoning. This usage has its advantages and disadvantages, but...reckoning in all matters relating to time, space, weight, measure, $c., is of such vast and paramount importance in every relation of life as to outweigh every... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1851 - 744 pages
...reckoning; and 1 o'clock in the afternoon of the former, to January 2 days 1 hour of the latter reckoning. This usage has its advantages and disadvantages, but...Uniformity in nomenclature and modes of reckoning in all mutters relating to time, space, weight, measure, Sfc., is of such vast and paramount importance in... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1857 - 608 pages
...reckoning; and one o'clock in the afternoon of the former, to January 2 days 1 hour of the latter reckoning. This usage has its advantages and disadvantages, but...nomenclature and modes of reckoning in all matters relatimj to time, space, weight, measure, &c., is of such vast and paramount importance in every relation... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1857 - 586 pages
...reckoning; and one o'clock in the afternoon of the former, to January 2 days 1 hour of the latter reckoning. This usage has its advantages and disadvantages, but...and the civil reckoning substituted. Uniformity in nomfncItiture and modes of reckoning in all mailers refuting to lime, space, weight, measure, d"c.,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1861 - 588 pages
...; and one o'clock in the afternoon of the former, to January 2 days 1 hour of the latter reckoning. This usage has its advantages and disadvantages, but...Uniformity in nomenclature and modes of reckoning in att matters relating to time, space, weight, measure, &c., it of such vast and paramount importance... | |
 | 1872 - 398 pages
...different classes held under the department. " Uniformity in nomenclature," says Sir John Herschel,* " and modes of reckoning in all matters relating to time, space, weight, measure, &c., is of such vast and paramount importance in every relation of life, as to outweigh every... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1869 - 590 pages
...hour of the latter reckoning. This usage has its advantages and disadvantages, but the latter scem to preponderate ; and it would be well if, in consequence,...reckoning in all matters relating to time, space, weight, measure, i£•i•., is of such vast and paramount importance in every relation of life as to outweigh... | |
 | 1882 - 514 pages
...but most of these will probably disappear in the second annual issue. The information obtained. * " Uniformity in nomenclature and modes of reckoning in all matters relating to time, space, weight, measure, &c., is of such vast and paramount importance in every relation of life as Io outweigh every... | |
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This usage has its advantages and disadvantages, but the latter seem to preponderate; and it would "be well if, in consequence, it could be broken through, and the civil reckoning substituted. 
