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Page 248 - Fourthly, though the phenomenon is in the strictest sense terrestrial, it is by converse with the heavens that it has been made known to us. A variation of probably a second, or less, in the right ascension of three or four stars, observed at different seasons, no doubt revealed the fact to the sagacious astronomer of Armagh, and even enabled him to divine its cause ; which has been confirmed as the true cause, and placed in a clearer light by the experiments of Mr Hopkins. One useful lesson may...
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| Title | The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art |
| Editors | Charles W. Vincent, James Mason |
| Contributor | John Timbs |
| Publisher | Simpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1858 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 19 Jun 2006 |
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