 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1823 - 572 pages
...i£..a^yery, small, that it would never have excited attention. ' ,,(_/ • . < A very great deviation will be found in three very bright stars, Capella, Procyon, and Sirius: the proper motion of each of these is southward; it therefore follows that these proper motions are... | |
 | Agriculture - 1823 - 506 pages
...motion in any star is so very small, that it would never have excited attention. A very great deviation will be found in three very bright stars, Capella, Procyon, and Sirius : the proper motion of each of these is southward ; it therefore follows that < these proper motions... | |
 | Science - 1823 - 506 pages
...motion in any star is so very small, that it would never have excited attention. A very great deviation will be found in three very bright stars, Capella, Procyon, and Sirius : the proper motion of each of these is southward ; it therefore follows that these proper motions... | |
 | English literature - 1824 - 696 pages
...motion in any star is so very small that it would never have excited attention. " A very great deviation will be found in three very bright stars, Cape'lla, Procyon; and Sirius ; the proper motion of each of these is southward : it therefore follows that these proper motions... | |
 | Science - 1824 - 628 pages
...Trans. in any star is so very small, that it would never have excited attention. A very great deviation will be found in three very bright stars, Capella, Procyon, and Sirius : the proper motion of each of these is southward ; it therefore follows that these proper motions... | |
 | Astronomy - 1863 - 314 pages
...principal fixed stars for the year 1826;" the principal discordances are those of *Pegasi,yAquil<e, Sirius, Procyon. In the Philosophical Transactions,...place. Finally, in the Introduction to the Catalogue of ii12 stars, dated June 27, 1833, he says, "We can hardly desire a better test of our power of predicting... | |
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... this happens the motion is always southward. I have yet met with no exception to this rule: not a single star can be found having an extra tendency to northern motion ; and, indeed, the northern motion in any star is so very small that it would never... 