 | 1857 - 306 pages
...consider the effect of difference of latitude only, we find that circumstances are not very favourable. The most northerly stations are to be found in Siberia,...on the coasts of China, and in North British India. The most southerly stations will be Kerguelen's Island, Van Dieman's Land, and New Zealand. But the... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1860 - 460 pages
...of latitude only, we find that circumstances are not very favorable. The most northerly stationsare to be found in Siberia, Tartary, and Thibet, (which...astronomers in December,) on the coasts of China, andin North British India. The most southerly stations will be Kerguelen's island. Van Dieman's Land,... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1873 - 654 pages
...speaking of "the application of the method of difference of duration of transit" (called " Halley-s Method " in the newspapers) " to the transit of 1874,"...most northerly stations are to be found in Siberia, Tarlary, and Thibet (which will scarcely be visited by Astronomers in December), on the coasts of China,... | |
 | 1873 - 672 pages
...speaking of "the application of the method of difference of duration of transit " (called " Iliilley's Method " in the newspapers) "to the transit of 1874,"...said, "The most northerly stations are to be found in Sibcriii, Tartary, and Thibet (which will scarcely be visited by Astronomers in December), on the coasts... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 480 pages
...illustrated by tables and maps of great clearneu and unquestionable value; and to these, mainly, I rhall refer in the following remarks. I shall, however,...transit at different places possess a high value, 1 state that in 1869 M. Puiseux had indicated this; that in the "Monthly Notices," March 12, 1869,... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 404 pages
...also extract some numbers from the calculations made by the Superintendent of the "Nautical Almanac,1' and published in the "Nautical Almanac" for 1874 ;...transit at different places possess a high value, 1 state that in 1869 M. Puiseux had indicated this; that in the "Monthly Notices," March 12, 1869,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1860 - 460 pages
...of latitude only, we firal that circumstances are not very favorable. The most northerly stationsare to be found in Siberia, Tartary, and Thibet, (which...the coasts of China, and' in North British India. The most southerly stations will be Kergu. elen's island. Van Dieman's Land, and New Zealand. But the... | |
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The most northerly stations are to be found in Siberia, Tartary, and Thibet (which will scarcely be visited by astronomers in December), on the coasts of China, and in North British India. 