Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... Sabine has discovered the most complete confirmation of the decennial period of magnetic declination , and its correspondence with the same period , in the alternate frequency and rarity of the solar spots ( Meteorological Essays ...
... Sabine has discovered the most complete confirmation of the decennial period of magnetic declination , and its correspondence with the same period , in the alternate frequency and rarity of the solar spots ( Meteorological Essays ...
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... ( Sabine , in the Report to the Brit . Assoc . at Liverpool , 1854 , p . 11 , and for Hobart - town in the Phil . Tr . for 1857 , Art . i , p . 6 ) , stimulates to a persevering observation of the magnetic influence of the earth's ...
... ( Sabine , in the Report to the Brit . Assoc . at Liverpool , 1854 , p . 11 , and for Hobart - town in the Phil . Tr . for 1857 , Art . i , p . 6 ) , stimulates to a persevering observation of the magnetic influence of the earth's ...
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... Sabine , who had accompanied Captain Parry on his first polar voyage in the capacity of astronomer . In the course of this voyage , which was con- tinued through the years 1822 and 1823 , he coasted along 17 Compare Biot , Astronomie ...
... Sabine , who had accompanied Captain Parry on his first polar voyage in the capacity of astronomer . In the course of this voyage , which was con- tinued through the years 1822 and 1823 , he coasted along 17 Compare Biot , Astronomie ...
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... Sabine , certainly give for the compression of the whole northern quadrant , but when separated into two halves , they yield a still more varying result , giving from the equator to 45 ° , and from 45 ° to the pole.20 It has been shown ...
... Sabine , certainly give for the compression of the whole northern quadrant , but when separated into two halves , they yield a still more varying result , giving from the equator to 45 ° , and from 45 ° to the pole.20 It has been shown ...
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... Sabine and Baily , which originated in Bessel's practically important pendulum correction ( reduction to a vacuum ) , see John Herschel in the Memoir of Francis Baily , 1845 , pp . 17-21 . 21 Cosmos , vol . i , p . 159. Compare , for ...
... Sabine and Baily , which originated in Bessel's practically important pendulum correction ( reduction to a vacuum ) , see John Herschel in the Memoir of Francis Baily , 1845 , pp . 17-21 . 21 Cosmos , vol . i , p . 159. Compare , for ...
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