The Observatory, Volume 34Editors of the Observatory, 1911 - Astronomy Some vols. for 1886- include a special issue: Annual companion to the Observatory. |
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... reference points for the Astrographic Catalogue , and may be referred to as the étoiles de repère . 2. These will be observed in zones by means of high - class dif- ferential observations . The standard stars for these will form a ...
... reference points for the Astrographic Catalogue , and may be referred to as the étoiles de repère . 2. These will be observed in zones by means of high - class dif- ferential observations . The standard stars for these will form a ...
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... reference to a note in your issue for December on " A Cold November , " in which the writer in his last paragraph draws attention to a remarkable heat - wave of a few hours ' duration which passed over Greenwich shortly after midnight ...
... reference to a note in your issue for December on " A Cold November , " in which the writer in his last paragraph draws attention to a remarkable heat - wave of a few hours ' duration which passed over Greenwich shortly after midnight ...
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... reference to the Cape heliometer and other measures , and especially to Prof. de Sit- ter's able work upon these and upon the theory . I wish to disavow in the clearest way that this silence is to be read as distrust or depreciation of ...
... reference to the Cape heliometer and other measures , and especially to Prof. de Sit- ter's able work upon these and upon the theory . I wish to disavow in the clearest way that this silence is to be read as distrust or depreciation of ...
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... references to the places where accounts of all these comparisons may be fonnd . The President . Certainly it will . I will ask the Meeting to return thanks to Mr. Darling for this very interesting paper , and to Major MacMahon for his ...
... references to the places where accounts of all these comparisons may be fonnd . The President . Certainly it will . I will ask the Meeting to return thanks to Mr. Darling for this very interesting paper , and to Major MacMahon for his ...
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... reference than present reading ;. I may , however , give a brief explanation of it . The day after Mr. Espin's discovery the weather was too unfavourable ; the next night ( January 1 ) was exceptionally fine , as evidenced by the large ...
... reference than present reading ;. I may , however , give a brief explanation of it . The day after Mr. Espin's discovery the weather was too unfavourable ; the next night ( January 1 ) was exceptionally fine , as evidenced by the large ...
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Page 299 - Some say, he bid his angels turn askance The poles of earth, twice ten degrees and more, From the sun's axle: they with labour push'd Oblique the centric globe.
Page 298 - And ye five other wand'ring fires that move . In mystic dance, not without song, resound His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light Air, and ye elements...
Page 334 - Is now the labour of my thoughts ; 'tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish night, Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars, That nature hung in heaven, and...
Page 330 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 325 - Modern discoveries have not been made by large collections of facts, with subsequent discussion, separation, and resulting deduction of a truth thus rendered perceptible. A few facts have suggested an hypothesis, which means a supposition, proper to explain them. The necessary results of this supposition are worked out, and then, and not till then, other facts are examined to see if these ulterior results are found in nature.
Page 333 - And all the rule, one empire; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come...
Page 164 - The fourth conference of the International Union for Cooperation in Solar Research was held at the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory, August 31 to September 2, 1910.
Page 258 - Sampson took part, followed, and on the motion of the President a vote of thanks was accorded to Prof.
Page 334 - To God's eternal house direct the way A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars...
Page 298 - Round he surveys, and well might, where he stood So high above the circling canopy Of night's extended shade, from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas. Beyond the horizon...