 A New and Enlarged Edition. Constructed from the best materials, and embodying the results of the most recent investigations, accompanied by a complete INDEX OF PLACES, in which the proper quantities are given by T.  Nature - Page 26edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - United States - 1904 - 544 pages
...office cadet school, Peking, 187778. Resigning because of ill health, he returned home and in 1879 was appointed professor of astronomy and director of the observatory in the University of Michigan. In 1891 he became chief of the US weather bureau at Washington, DC He was a member of the... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson, John Howard Brown - United States - 1904 - 540 pages
...school, Peking, 187778. Resigning because of ill health, he returned HARRINGTON HARRIS home and in 1879 was appointed professor of astronomy and director of the observatory in the University of Michigan. In 1891 he became chief of the US weather bureau at Washington, DC He was a member of the... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1906 - 890 pages
...(1852), a work for which the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society was awarded in 1856. In 1859 he was appointed professor of astronomy and director of the observatory in the University of Glasgow. He accompanied the Himalaya expedition of 1860 to Spain to observe the total solar eclipse. His further... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1909 - 894 pages
...(1852), a work for which the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society was awarded in 1856. In 1859 he was appointed professor of astronomy and director of the observatory in the University of Glasgow. He accompanied the Himalaya expedition of 1860 to Spain to observe the total solar eclipse. His further... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1922 - 868 pages
...1852), a work for which the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical Society was awarded in 1856. In 1859 he was appointed professor of astronomy and director of the observatory in the University of Glasgow. He accompanied the Himalaya expedition of 1860 to Spain to observe the total solar eclipse. His further... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1893 - 680 pages
...paragraph of the address delivered on that occasion may here be quoted as characterizing most justry thwork as well as its author : " Throughout the book...Himalaya, to observe the total solar eclipse of July 1 8, 1860, Prof. Grant, from his station near Vittoria, had the satisfaction of seeing a portion of... | |
 | Science - 1893 - 882 pages
...to the discovery of the planet Neptune. By a simple narration of facts he has placed the history ot that great event in so clear and so true a light,...Himalaya, to observe the total solar eclipse of July 1 8, 1860, Prof. Grant, from his station near Vittoria, had the satisfaction of seeing a portion of... | |
 | Astrophysics - 1917 - 892 pages
...a privat-docent in the University of Munich. In the year 1001, at the age of scarcely twenty-eight, he was appointed professor of astronomy and director of the observatory in the University of Gottingen. There he felt at home, not least on account of the especially mathematical sphere of this... | |
 | Astronomy - 1893 - 552 pages
...285." Mr. JE Keeler's paper on Mars was deferred for want of time. Ludwvj Btcker, Ph.D., Professor of Astronomy and Director of the Observatory in the University of Glasgow ; Bernard Edward C'ammell, Folly Court, Wokingham, Berks ; Raymond Hill Godfrey, 79 Comhill, BC, and... | |
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