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... compared with local time , gives a simple method of determining that important and difficult geographical element , the longitude . And some discrepancies between their calculated and observed positions first suggested the great ...
... compared with local time , gives a simple method of determining that important and difficult geographical element , the longitude . And some discrepancies between their calculated and observed positions first suggested the great ...
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... compared with sufficient care to lead to any results ; indeed one of the most important of them was afterwards found by Bouvard scribbled upon a confectioner's paper bag . astronomers , and the hope began to be enter- tained The Planets .
... compared with sufficient care to lead to any results ; indeed one of the most important of them was afterwards found by Bouvard scribbled upon a confectioner's paper bag . astronomers , and the hope began to be enter- tained The Planets .
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... comparing this elliptic ring with a list of cometary paths , Schiaparelli found again the same extraordinary coincidence ; the orbit of the August meteors was identical with that of the comet of 1862. It was scarcely possible that these ...
... comparing this elliptic ring with a list of cometary paths , Schiaparelli found again the same extraordinary coincidence ; the orbit of the August meteors was identical with that of the comet of 1862. It was scarcely possible that these ...
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... compared with which our own system , mighty as it is , counts but as a drop in the ocean . And here , as formerly , our subject naturally divides itself into two parts . We have to consider , first , those facts relating to the stars ...
... compared with which our own system , mighty as it is , counts but as a drop in the ocean . And here , as formerly , our subject naturally divides itself into two parts . We have to consider , first , those facts relating to the stars ...
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... compared with the dazzling effulgence that encircles them . Bright stars are massed round them with a lavishness many thousand times greater than in the neighbourhood of our solar system . Indeed , instead of having a moon and an ocean ...
... compared with the dazzling effulgence that encircles them . Bright stars are massed round them with a lavishness many thousand times greater than in the neighbourhood of our solar system . Indeed , instead of having a moon and an ocean ...
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