The Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Volumes 13 à 14Royal Astronomical Society of Canada., 1919 List of officers and members for 1909, 1914, 1919, 1931, separately paged are included in v. 2, 8, 13, 25, respectively. |
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... reference of space and time ; for that is the canonical system , so to speak , with regard to which dynamical principles take on an ideal simple form , and it is a system which is being determined with continually expanding precision by ...
... reference of space and time ; for that is the canonical system , so to speak , with regard to which dynamical principles take on an ideal simple form , and it is a system which is being determined with continually expanding precision by ...
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... reference . Notes in regard to the character of the spectrum and other remarks which are too long to be incorporated in the table , are given below the latter , the purpose being to make the data about each sufficiently complete to ...
... reference . Notes in regard to the character of the spectrum and other remarks which are too long to be incorporated in the table , are given below the latter , the purpose being to make the data about each sufficiently complete to ...
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... reference . As you are probably aware , on that date the apex of the moon's long conical shadow ( the cause of all total eclipses of the sun ) touched the earth's surface first at a point in the Pacific Ocean south of Japan and ...
... reference . As you are probably aware , on that date the apex of the moon's long conical shadow ( the cause of all total eclipses of the sun ) touched the earth's surface first at a point in the Pacific Ocean south of Japan and ...
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... reference to a method of research as original as it is novel , which allies the seemingly diverse branches of stellar distances and stellar spectrography . I refer to what is termed spectroscopic parallax , which , though only brought ...
... reference to a method of research as original as it is novel , which allies the seemingly diverse branches of stellar distances and stellar spectrography . I refer to what is termed spectroscopic parallax , which , though only brought ...
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... were discussed , but without the slightest reference to Mr. Elvins's work . Mr. Elvins and some of his friends thought it unfair that he should be thus ignored . But he was anxious to obtain means for testing his Andrew Elvins 109.
... were discussed , but without the slightest reference to Mr. Elvins's work . Mr. Elvins and some of his friends thought it unfair that he should be thus ignored . But he was anxious to obtain means for testing his Andrew Elvins 109.
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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...