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... calculating the days elapsed between given dates . Equinoctial time ............... . APPENDIX . 523 I. Lists of Northern and Southern Stars , with their approximate Magni- tudes , on the Vulgar and Photometric Scales 541 II . Synoptic ...
... calculating the days elapsed between given dates . Equinoctial time ............... . APPENDIX . 523 I. Lists of Northern and Southern Stars , with their approximate Magni- tudes , on the Vulgar and Photometric Scales 541 II . Synoptic ...
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... calculations have called up , and exhausting his imagination and the powers of his language to devise similes and metaphors illustrative of the immensity of the scale on which his universe is constructed , he shrinks back to his native ...
... calculations have called up , and exhausting his imagination and the powers of his language to devise similes and metaphors illustrative of the immensity of the scale on which his universe is constructed , he shrinks back to his native ...
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... calculation , however , founded on our experimental knowledge of the pro- pertics of air , and the mechanical laws which regulate its dilatation and compression , is sufficient to show that , at an altitude above the surface of the ...
... calculation , however , founded on our experimental knowledge of the pro- pertics of air , and the mechanical laws which regulate its dilatation and compression , is sufficient to show that , at an altitude above the surface of the ...
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... destined to furnish these useful aids to calculation . It is , how- 1 From an Arabic word of this signification . See this term technically defined in Chap . II . ever , desirable that he should bear in mind the REFRACTION . 39.
... destined to furnish these useful aids to calculation . It is , how- 1 From an Arabic word of this signification . See this term technically defined in Chap . II . ever , desirable that he should bear in mind the REFRACTION . 39.
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... calculation and due allowance , they actually vitiate , to their full extent , the results of any observations in which they subsist . Being , however , in their nature casual and accidental , their effects necessarily lie sometimes one ...
... calculation and due allowance , they actually vitiate , to their full extent , the results of any observations in which they subsist . Being , however , in their nature casual and accidental , their effects necessarily lie sometimes one ...
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