 | Charles Joyce White - 1872 - 300 pages
...will not occur at the same' absolute instant of time at both places, but will occur later at E'" by the time required for light to cross the orbit of the earth, a distance of 185,000,000 miles. And such is actually the case. This peculiarity was first noticed... | |
 | Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden - 1879 - 534 pages
...the earth. The extreme differences in the times of the eclipse being 22 minutes, he assigned this as the time required for light to cross the orbit of the earth, and so concluded that it came from the sun to the earth in 11 minutes. We now know that this estimate was... | |
 | Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden - 1881 - 584 pages
...the earth. The extreme differences in the times of the eclipse being 22 minutes, he assigned this as the time required for light to cross the orbit of the earth, and so concluded that it came from the sun to the earth in 11 minutes. TVe now know that this estimate was... | |
 | 1884 - 412 pages
...satellite system also deserves careful observation, especially in respect to the eclipses which occur ; since we find in them a measure of the time required...already much increased the precision of the results. care and prolixity ; but a new and more compendious method is most desirable. The problems of Saturn... | |
 | 1884 - 952 pages
...satellite system deserves careful observation, especially in respect to the eclipses which occur ; since we find in them a measure of the time required...Pickering at Cambridge in 1878, and since reinvented by Cornn in Paris, has already much increased the precision of the results. With reference to the mathematical... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 850 pages
...countenance of this planet ; so that, like the moon, it will well repay the most minute and assiduous study. Its satellite system deserves careful observation,...Pickering at Cambridge in 1878, and since re-invented by Cornn in Paris, has already much increased the precision of the results. With reference to the mathematical... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 860 pages
...countenance of this planet ; so that, like the moon, it will well repay the most minute and assiduous study. Its satellite system deserves careful observation,...eclipses, first instituted by Professor Pickering nt Cambridge in 1878, and since re-invented by Cornu in PaVis, has already much increased the precision... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 468 pages
...minute and assiduous study. Its satellite system deserves careful observation, especially in I'espect to the eclipses, since we find in them a measure of...; and also because, as has been already mentioned, tiiey furnish a test of the constancy of the earth's rotation. The photometric method of observing... | |
 | 1883 - 966 pages
...satellite system also deserves careful observation, especially in respect to the eclipses which occur; since we find in them a measure of the time required...PICKERING at Cambridge in 1878, and since re-invented by COBNU in Paris, has already much increased the precision of the results. With reference to the mathematical... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885 - 856 pages
...countenance of this planet ; so that, like the moon, it will well repay the most minute and assiduous study. Its satellite system deserves careful observation,...Cambridge in 1878, and since re-invented by Cornu iij Paris, has already much increased the precision of the results. .With reference to the mathematical... | |
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Its satellite system deserves careful observation, especially in respect to the eclipses, since we find in them a measure of the time required for light to cross the orbit of the earth, and so of the solar parallax ; and also because, as has been already... 