History of the Royal Society: From Its Institution to the End of the Eighteenth Century, Volume 1Abridgement of the philosophical transactions from 1665 to the end of the year 1800. |
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... astronomers , and has been illustrated at some length by La Place in his popular System of Astronomy . But Dr. Halley himself seems afterwards . rather to suppose , that the intermixture of sea shells with the strata of the earth took ...
... astronomers , and has been illustrated at some length by La Place in his popular System of Astronomy . But Dr. Halley himself seems afterwards . rather to suppose , that the intermixture of sea shells with the strata of the earth took ...
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... astronomers have devoted themselves to the observation of the heavenly phe- nomena , with a degree of persevering industry , which has only been equalled by the progress which they have made . No other science can boast of the same ...
... astronomers have devoted themselves to the observation of the heavenly phe- nomena , with a degree of persevering industry , which has only been equalled by the progress which they have made . No other science can boast of the same ...
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... astronomers , who were placed in this building , were Aristyllus and Timocharis , who lived about 300 years Aristyllus and before Christ , and observed , with accuracy , the position of the principal stars of the zodiac . The little ...
... astronomers , who were placed in this building , were Aristyllus and Timocharis , who lived about 300 years Aristyllus and before Christ , and observed , with accuracy , the position of the principal stars of the zodiac . The little ...
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... astronomers were made . Eratosthenes likewise observed the obliquity of the ecliptic , and found it 23 ° 51 ′ 13 ′′ ; a determination which has been of some service to astronomers , in determining the change of the obliquity which has ...
... astronomers were made . Eratosthenes likewise observed the obliquity of the ecliptic , and found it 23 ° 51 ′ 13 ′′ ; a determination which has been of some service to astronomers , in determining the change of the obliquity which has ...
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... astronomers to know whether any new stars had made their ap- pearance after his time . He not only drew up a catalogue of the principal fixed stars , with their exact positions , but he appears to have constructed a solid sphere , and ...
... astronomers to know whether any new stars had made their ap- pearance after his time . He not only drew up a catalogue of the principal fixed stars , with their exact positions , but he appears to have constructed a solid sphere , and ...
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