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... photographic , as well as meteorological , instruments at three different stations in Peru and on the west slope of ... photographic plate was taken by Professor G. P. Bond in 1850. The development of photographic astron- omy since that ...
... photographic , as well as meteorological , instruments at three different stations in Peru and on the west slope of ... photographic plate was taken by Professor G. P. Bond in 1850. The development of photographic astron- omy since that ...
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... photographic library several hundred plates may be found of any region , whether in the northern or the southern hemisphere of the sky , which the astronomer may wish to examine . The collection of photographs includes not only charts ...
... photographic library several hundred plates may be found of any region , whether in the northern or the southern hemisphere of the sky , which the astronomer may wish to examine . The collection of photographs includes not only charts ...
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... photographic magnitudes , classification of spectra , and also of variables , has become universally the standard . A complete list of the medals and other distinctions receivedi by him from universities and societies at home and abroad ...
... photographic magnitudes , classification of spectra , and also of variables , has become universally the standard . A complete list of the medals and other distinctions receivedi by him from universities and societies at home and abroad ...
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... photographic magnitude 6.96 , is the first spectroscopic binary to be discovered and have the elements of its orbit determined at Victoria . It is of interest on account of its short period and large range , rather unusual in stars of ...
... photographic magnitude 6.96 , is the first spectroscopic binary to be discovered and have the elements of its orbit determined at Victoria . It is of interest on account of its short period and large range , rather unusual in stars of ...
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... photographic magnitude was only about 20 minutes . With good silver surfaces and fair seeing , good spectra could be ob- tained in 15 minutes . This is for a linear dispersion at Hy , as previously stated , of 35 A per millimetre , and ...
... photographic magnitude was only about 20 minutes . With good silver surfaces and fair seeing , good spectra could be ob- tained in 15 minutes . This is for a linear dispersion at Hy , as previously stated , of 35 A per millimetre , and ...
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Page 361 - Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food; but God has given us wit, and flavour, and brightness, and laughter, and perfumes, to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to " charm his pained steps over the burning marie.
Page 345 - Seest thou a man diligent in his business.* he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.
Page 362 - No competent thinker, with the whole of the available evidence before him, can now, it is safe to say, maintain any single nebula to be a star system of co-ordinate rank with the Milky Way.
Page 65 - they do, according to their manner, worship the hosts of heaven, and believe particular constellations rule natural causes. For such they have names, and sing and dance to gain the favour of the Pleiades (MormodellicK), the constellation worshipped by one body as the giver of rain; but if it should be deferred, instead of blessings curses are apt to be bestowed upon it.
Page 362 - Regions, in which tho' visibly luminous spaces, no one star or particular constituent body can possibly be distinguished; those in all likelihood may be external creation, bordering upon the known one, too remote for even our telescopes to reach.
Page 67 - ... than in the ripening of the year, which was regarded as a kind of annual acknowledgment to the gods. When the prayers were finished at the marae, and the banquet ended, a usage prevailed much resembling the popish custom of mass for souls in purgatory. Each individual returned to his home, or to his family marae, there to offer special prayers for the spirits of departed relatives...
Page 59 - This startling fact at once drew my attention to the question, How was this uniformity in the time of observance preserved, not only in far distant quarters of the globe, but also through that vast lapse of time since the Peruvian and the Indo-European first inherited this primeval festival from a common source?
Page 83 - FOR all we have and are, For all our children's fate, Stand up and take the war, The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away, In wantonness o'erthrown. There is nothing left to-day But steel and fire and stone! Though all we knew depart, The old Commandments stand: — ' In courage keep your heart, In strength lift up your hand.
Page 103 - A Solemnity was kept, says he, on the Eve of " the first of November as a Thanksgiving for the " safe -Ingathering of the Produce of the Fields. " This I am told, but have not seen it, is observed . '* in Buchan, and other Countries, by having Hal" low-Eve-Fires kindled on some rising Ground.
Page 466 - What has nature to do with the coordinate systems that we propose and with their motions? Although it may be necessary for our descriptions of nature to employ systems of coordinates that we have selected arbitrarily, the choice should not be limited in any way so far as their state of motion is concerned. (General theory of relativity.) The application of this general theory of relativity was found to be in conflict with a well-known experiment, according to which it appeared that the weight and...