Outlines of AstronomyLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1851 - 661 pages |
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Page 43
... observed setting in the west have again risen in the east , while those which were rising when he first began to notice them have completed their course , and are now set ; and that thus the hemisphere , or a great part of it , which ...
... observed setting in the west have again risen in the east , while those which were rising when he first began to notice them have completed their course , and are now set ; and that thus the hemisphere , or a great part of it , which ...
Page 56
... observations to the other station ; but , as every locality on the globe may be a station of observation , it is far more convenient and natural to fix upon a point equally related to all , as the common point of reference ; and this ...
... observations to the other station ; but , as every locality on the globe may be a station of observation , it is far more convenient and natural to fix upon a point equally related to all , as the common point of reference ; and this ...
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... observations in sidereal time . The hour angles corresponding to equal altitudes of a fixed star being equal , the hour angle east or west will be measured by half the observed interval of the observations . In our triangle , then , we ...
... observations in sidereal time . The hour angles corresponding to equal altitudes of a fixed star being equal , the hour angle east or west will be measured by half the observed interval of the observations . In our triangle , then , we ...
Page 78
... observations : others , again , are consequences of imperfect workmanship , as where an instrument once well ... observed , that , in so far as they cannot be reduced to known laws , and thereby become subjects of calculation and ...
... observations : others , again , are consequences of imperfect workmanship , as where an instrument once well ... observed , that , in so far as they cannot be reduced to known laws , and thereby become subjects of calculation and ...
Page 79
... observation to be the ultimate means of de- tection of all mechanical defects which elude by their mi- nuteness every other mode of detection . What the eye cannot discern nor the touch perceive , a course of astronomical observations ...
... observation to be the ultimate means of de- tection of all mechanical defects which elude by their mi- nuteness every other mode of detection . What the eye cannot discern nor the touch perceive , a course of astronomical observations ...
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