Nature, Volume 19Sir Norman Lockyer Macmillan Journals Limited, 1879 - Electronic journals |
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... determined with any accuracy only from observations with standard instruments , whose heights above the sea- level have been ascertained by levelling , I have employed for their determination observations made at the three observatories ...
... determined with any accuracy only from observations with standard instruments , whose heights above the sea- level have been ascertained by levelling , I have employed for their determination observations made at the three observatories ...
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... determined only two or three out of this number have the angle of excentricity , as it is termed , or sine , greater than 20 ° , which corresponds to e 0'342 . More than ten years since Mr. Godward , of the Nautical Almanac Office ...
... determined only two or three out of this number have the angle of excentricity , as it is termed , or sine , greater than 20 ° , which corresponds to e 0'342 . More than ten years since Mr. Godward , of the Nautical Almanac Office ...
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... determined orbits remain to be virtually rediscovered , and the most interesting of all , from its long period and near approach to the orbit of Jupiter ( Hilda ) , was not found at its last opposition . Atalanta and Felicitas are now ...
... determined orbits remain to be virtually rediscovered , and the most interesting of all , from its long period and near approach to the orbit of Jupiter ( Hilda ) , was not found at its last opposition . Atalanta and Felicitas are now ...
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... determined with sufficient accuracy to make the results of any value , but this we believe has not yet been done . The conclusions we arrive at are as follows : -As long as the foundations remain secure , the obelisk may be frequently ...
... determined with sufficient accuracy to make the results of any value , but this we believe has not yet been done . The conclusions we arrive at are as follows : -As long as the foundations remain secure , the obelisk may be frequently ...
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... determined by his Pyrheliometer . instrument , and the results , which he drew from its use , are fully described in his " Éléments de Physique Expéri- mentale et de Météorologie " ( livre 8me , chap . i . , section 285 ) . But I have ...
... determined by his Pyrheliometer . instrument , and the results , which he drew from its use , are fully described in his " Éléments de Physique Expéri- mentale et de Météorologie " ( livre 8me , chap . i . , section 285 ) . But I have ...
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