Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe, Volume 5H.G. Bohn, 1858 |
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... hemispheres furnished the same result as to the operation of the sun , as well as the certainty " that the lunar - diurnal variation corresponding to different years shows no conformity to the inequality manifested in those of the solar ...
... hemispheres furnished the same result as to the operation of the sun , as well as the certainty " that the lunar - diurnal variation corresponding to different years shows no conformity to the inequality manifested in those of the solar ...
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... hemispheres . The moon may , therefore , by the observation of its movements render appreciable to the higher departments of astro- nomy , the ellipticity of the earth , as it taught the early astronomers the rotundity of our earth by ...
... hemispheres . The moon may , therefore , by the observation of its movements render appreciable to the higher departments of astro- nomy , the ellipticity of the earth , as it taught the early astronomers the rotundity of our earth by ...
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... hemispheres , from Spitzbergen in 79 ° 50 ′ N.L. , to the Falkland Islands , in 51 ° 35 ′ S.L. , where Freycinet , Duperrey , and Sir James Ross successively made their observations , only from 65 to 70 irregularly scattered points , 18 ...
... hemispheres , from Spitzbergen in 79 ° 50 ′ N.L. , to the Falkland Islands , in 51 ° 35 ′ S.L. , where Freycinet , Duperrey , and Sir James Ross successively made their observations , only from 65 to 70 irregularly scattered points , 18 ...
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... hemisphere ; and from these , increased by all the pendulum stations of the British survey and of the French ... hemispheres , that THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH . 23.
... hemisphere ; and from these , increased by all the pendulum stations of the British survey and of the French ... hemispheres , that THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH . 23.
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... hemisphere we possess a small number of admirable , but very widely diffused observations made by Freycinet , Duperrey , Fallows , Lütke , Brisbane and Rümker . These observations have confirmed a fact which had been strikingly ...
... hemisphere we possess a small number of admirable , but very widely diffused observations made by Freycinet , Duperrey , Fallows , Lütke , Brisbane and Rümker . These observations have confirmed a fact which had been strikingly ...
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