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Side 91
... Precession of the Equinoxes ( of which more will be said hereafter ) ; and even this does not affect its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic . Having got through this part of my subject , I will now proceed to speak of the apparent ...
... Precession of the Equinoxes ( of which more will be said hereafter ) ; and even this does not affect its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic . Having got through this part of my subject , I will now proceed to speak of the apparent ...
Side 160
... if I have given you a few notions of it I shall be perfectly satisfied . I shall make some further remarks on this subject in the next lecture . LECTURE V. Recapitulation of Lecture IV . - Precession of 160 POPULAR ASTRONOMY .
... if I have given you a few notions of it I shall be perfectly satisfied . I shall make some further remarks on this subject in the next lecture . LECTURE V. Recapitulation of Lecture IV . - Precession of 160 POPULAR ASTRONOMY .
Side 161
... Precession of the Equinoxes -Lunar Nutation . - Aberration of Light . - Measure of the Distances of the Stars . IN N last evening's lecture I treated more especially of the measures of the distance of the moon and the sun from the earth ...
... Precession of the Equinoxes -Lunar Nutation . - Aberration of Light . - Measure of the Distances of the Stars . IN N last evening's lecture I treated more especially of the measures of the distance of the moon and the sun from the earth ...
Side 175
... Precession of the Equi- noxes . This is a thing which was known as a fact of observation to the ancients . The person who dis- covered it was the Greek Astronomer Hipparchus , a hundred and fifty years before the Christian era . was ...
... Precession of the Equi- noxes . This is a thing which was known as a fact of observation to the ancients . The person who dis- covered it was the Greek Astronomer Hipparchus , a hundred and fifty years before the Christian era . was ...
Side 181
... Precession of the Equi- noxes . It is to be observed , that the principal part of pre- cession is not produced by the sun , but by the moon . The moon's mass is not a twenty - millionth part of the sun's ; but she is four hundred times ...
... Precession of the Equi- noxes . It is to be observed , that the principal part of pre- cession is not produced by the sun , but by the moon . The moon's mass is not a twenty - millionth part of the sun's ; but she is four hundred times ...
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Popular Astronomy: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich George Biddell Airy Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
Popular Astronomy: A Series of Lectures Delivered at Ipswich George Biddell Airy Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1868 |
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