Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume 17U.S. Government Printing Office, 1924 - Science Each volume comprises one or more monographs, many of which are issued also as separates. |
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... Journal . Shortly thereafter he decided to investigate the famous and difficult hypothesis that the asteroids owe their origin to the explosion of one and the same antecedent body at some past epoch . If this was the case , then the ...
... Journal . Shortly thereafter he decided to investigate the famous and difficult hypothesis that the asteroids owe their origin to the explosion of one and the same antecedent body at some past epoch . If this was the case , then the ...
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... journals , and in special mediums ; but the theory and tables of the planetary and lunar motions are contained chiefly in the Astro- nomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac , of which eight and ...
... journals , and in special mediums ; but the theory and tables of the planetary and lunar motions are contained chiefly in the Astro- nomical Papers Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac , of which eight and ...
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... Journal of Mathematics , published under the auspices of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity , during the years 1885-1893 and 1899-1900 , and a coeditor in the years 1878-79 , 1894-1898 and from 1901 until his death . He was one of the first ...
... Journal of Mathematics , published under the auspices of Johns Hopkins Uni- versity , during the years 1885-1893 and 1899-1900 , and a coeditor in the years 1878-79 , 1894-1898 and from 1901 until his death . He was one of the first ...
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... journals contain articles on life insurance , the silver question , the organization of labor , schools of political economy , etc. Newcomb was a lecturer on political economy in Harvard College in 1879-80 . He was elected president of ...
... journals contain articles on life insurance , the silver question , the organization of labor , schools of political economy , etc. Newcomb was a lecturer on political economy in Harvard College in 1879-80 . He was elected president of ...
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... Journal prize of $ 400 , " For the most thorough discussion of the theory of the rotation of the earth , with reference to the recent discovery of the variation of latitude . " 1897 : The Schubert prize ( 900 roubles ) of the Imperial ...
... Journal prize of $ 400 , " For the most thorough discussion of the theory of the rotation of the earth , with reference to the recent discovery of the variation of latitude . " 1897 : The Schubert prize ( 900 roubles ) of the Imperial ...
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Page 5 - When an officer is known or suspected to be guilty of malversation in office, some member of the house of representatives usually brings forward a resolution to accuse the party, or for the appointment of a committee to consider and report upon the charges brought against him.
Page 36 - The Uranian and Neptunian systems, investigated with the 26-inch equatorial of the United States Naval observatory.
Page 55 - Elements of Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, with Logarithmic and other Mathematical Tables, and Examples of their Use and Hints on the Art of Computation, by Simon...
Page 5 - On the Right Ascensions of the Equatorial Fundamental Stars and the Corrections Necessary to Reduce the Right Ascensions of Different Catalogues to a Mean Homogeneous System.
Page 38 - On the recurrence of solar eclipses with tables of eclipses from BC 700 to AD 2300, by Simon Newcomb.
Page 16 - Sciences in 1900; the Bruce Gold Medal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific in...
Page 96 - The Earliest Winged Insects of America: a re-examination of the Devonian Insects of New -Brunswick, in the light of criticisms and of new studies of other Palaeozoic types.
Page 189 - Deprivation of the comforts of life has a greater tendency to diminish stature than the weight," and "that the importance of mode of life as a factor in determining the size of growing children in this community is at least equal to and possibly even greater than that of race.
Page 3 - I date my birth into the world of sweetness and light on one frosty morning in January, 1857, when I took my seat between two well-known mathematicians, before a blazing fire in the office of the Nautical Almanac at Cambridge, Mass.
Page 95 - A brief account of some of the scientific institutions of Boston and vicinity.