... posterity ; but the record remains, and transfuses all its own exactness into every determination which takes it for a groundwork, giving to inferior instruments, nay, even to temporary contrivances, and to the observations of a few weeks or days,... A Handbook of Descriptive Astronomy - Page 483by George Frederick Chambers - 1877 - 928 pagesFull view - About this book
| Royal Astronomical Society - Astronomy - 1831 - 422 pages
...When once its place has been thoroughly ascertained and carefully recorded, the brazen circle with which that useful work was done may moulder, the marble...at the cost of so much time, labour, and expense. To avail ourselves of these records, however, we must first have the means of disentangling the observed... | |
| Astronomy - 1831 - 416 pages
...When once its place has been thoroughly ascertained and carefully recorded, the brazen circle with which that useful work was done may moulder, the marble...at the cost of so much time, labour, and expense. To avail ourselves of these records, however, we must first have the means of disentangling the observed... | |
| British Association for the Advancement of Science, Francis Baily - Stars - 1845 - 556 pages
...When once its place has been thoroughly ascertained and carefully recorded, the brazen circle, with which that useful work was done, may moulder, the...at the cost of so much time, labour, and expense. 11. "To avail ourselves of these records, however, we must first have the means of disentangling the... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1848 - 892 pages
...astronomer himself only survive in the gratitude of his posterity ; but the record remains, and tranfuses all its own exactness into every determination which...at the cost of so much time, labour, and expense." In the earliest times of which we have any account, mankind appear to have been acquainted with the... | |
| John Drew - Astronomical instruments - 1853 - 386 pages
...takes it for a groundwork, giving to inferior instruments, nay even to temporary contrivances, and to observations of a few weeks or days, all the precision...at the cost of so much time, labour, and expense." THE ATMOSPHERE — REFRACTION. 42. The earth, as well as several, if not all, of the planets, is surrounded... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...ground-work, giving to inferior instruments, nay, even to temporary contrivances, and to the observation of a few weeks or days, all the precision attained originally at the cost of so much time, labor, and expense. — Hersclttl'ti " £stays from the Edinburgh Review." IMPORTANT DISCOVERT. —... | |
| Thomas Milner - 1860 - 896 pages
...astronomer himself only survive in the gratitude of his posterity; but the record remains, and tranfuses all its own exactness into every determination which...at the cost of so much time, labour, and expense." In the earliest times of which we have any account, mankind appear to have been acquainted with the... | |
| William Arthur Darby - 1864 - 150 pages
...When once its place has been thoroughly ascertained and carefully recorded, the brazen circle, with which that useful work was done, may moulder, the...originally at the cost of so much time, labour, and expense/5 — Sir John Herschel on the Catalogue of the Royal Astronomical Society. DOUBLE STARS. TEST-OBJECTS.... | |
| Science - 1866 - 386 pages
...moulder, the marble pillar totter on its base, and the astronomer himself survive only in the gratitude of posterity. But the record remains, and transfuses...at the cost of so much time, labour, and expense." Such are the opinions so elegantly expressed by this great philosopher, in the introduction to the... | |
| George Frederick Chambers - Astronomy - 1867 - 888 pages
...useful work was done, may moulder, the marble pillar totter on its base, and the astronomer only survive in the gratitude of his posterity : but the record...originally at the cost of so much time, labour, and expense f." P Mem. RAS, vol. iii. p. 135. MULTIPLE STABS. (Drawn to tcalr by GP CTianikeri.) CHAPTER II. DOUBLE... | |
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