Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 53; Volumes 1892-1893Priestley and Weale, 1893 Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged. |
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Academy Andromeda angle appeared Aquilæ Astronomer Royal Auriga Bisection bright Burnham Camelop Canis Carinæ Cassiopeia Catalogue Centauri centre Cephei cluster coefficient comet Comparison Stars correction Cygni Dembowski determined diameter distance double stars E. E. Barnard eclipse epoch Equat equatoreal exposure Galactic Long Geminorum Greenwich Greenwich Mean instrument Isaac Roberts June Jupiter Lalande lens Lick Observatory London longitude lunar Lupi Mädler Magn magnitude me²e mean measures Meteorological micrometer Monocerotis Monthly Notices Moon motion nebula observations obtained Ophiuchi orbit Orionis paper parallax Paris period Persei photographs planet plates position probable error Professor proper motion Puppis Refraction right ascension Royal Observatory S. W. Burnham Sagittarii satellite Saturn Schiaparelli Scorpii Seabroke seen Sept solar spectra spectroscope spectrum stellar Struve Tauri telescope thermometer tion transit Velorum ΙΟ
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Page 196 - PRIZE," be awarded every two years to the author of the best Essay on some subject of Pure Mathematics, Astronomy, or other branch of Natural Philosophy. 2.
Page 189 - Formed a design in the beginning of this week, of investigating, as soon as possible after taking my degree, the irregularities in the motion of Uranus, which are yet unaccounted for; in order to find whether they may be attributed to the action of an undiscovered planet beyond it; and if possible thence to determine the elements of its orbit, etc. approximately, which would probably lead to its discovery.
Page 191 - We see it as Columbus saw America from the shores of Spain. Its movements have been felt, trembling along the far-reaching line of our analysis, with a certainty hardly inferior to that of ocular demonstration.
Page 299 - I deliberately put aside all teachings of theory, because it seemed to me high time that the facts should be examined by a purely inductive process ; that the nugatory results of all attempts to detect the existence of the Eulerian period...
Page 219 - Catalogue of 6415 Stars for the epoch 1870, deduced from Observations made at the Glasgow University Observatory during the years 1860 to 1881, preceded by a Synopsis of the Annual Results of each Star arranged in the order of Right Ascension.
Page 217 - ATLAS OF CLASSICAL GEOGRAPHY. A New and Enlarged Edition. Constructed from the best materials, and embodying the results of the most recent investigations, accompanied by a complete INDEX OF PLACES, in which the proper quantities are given by T.
Page 20 - Chemistry, a book which is so well known that it is hardly necessary to do more than note the appearance of this new and improved edition. It seems, however, desirable to point out that feature of the book which, in all probability, has made it so popular.
Page 189 - ... of the residual errors of the mean longitude of Uranus, after taking account of the disturbing effect of the new planet, at dates extending from 1690 to 1840. On November 10, 1845, Le Verrier presented to the French Academy an elaborate investigation of the perturbations of Uranus produced by Jupiter and Saturn, in which he pointed out several small inequalities which had previously been neglected.
Page 197 - As president he delivered the addresses on the presentation of the medal to Peters and to Hind. In 1852 he communicated to the Society new tables of the Moon's parallax, to be substituted for those of Burckhardt.