The Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 244E. Cave, jun. at St John's Gate, 1968 |
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IEW WAYS OF MEASURING THE SUN'S DISTANCE . T is strange that the problem of determining the sun's distance , which for many ages was regarded as altogether insoluble , and hich even during recent years had seemed fairly solvable in but ...
IEW WAYS OF MEASURING THE SUN'S DISTANCE . T is strange that the problem of determining the sun's distance , which for many ages was regarded as altogether insoluble , and hich even during recent years had seemed fairly solvable in but ...
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... distance . Thus they rn the sun's distance precisely as a rifleman learns the distance of line of soldiers when he has ascertained their apparent size , -for ly at a certain distance can an object of known size have a certain parent ...
... distance . Thus they rn the sun's distance precisely as a rifleman learns the distance of line of soldiers when he has ascertained their apparent size , -for ly at a certain distance can an object of known size have a certain parent ...
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... distance from the sun inversely . If we increase our estimate of the earth's distance from the sun we , in the same degree , increase our estimate of her orbital velocity . The squar of this velocity then increases as the square of the ...
... distance from the sun inversely . If we increase our estimate of the earth's distance from the sun we , in the same degree , increase our estimate of her orbital velocity . The squar of this velocity then increases as the square of the ...
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