Annual Record of Science and Industry, 7. köideSpencer Fullerton Baird Harper & Brothers, 1878 Annual record for 1874-78 contains "Select works on science published during 1874-78." |
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... facts seem to indicate a relation between them . M. Tempel , of Florence , sends to the Astronomische Nach- richten , No. 2138 , a long account of his observations of nebulæ at Florence , which are prosecuted under many difficulties ...
... facts seem to indicate a relation between them . M. Tempel , of Florence , sends to the Astronomische Nach- richten , No. 2138 , a long account of his observations of nebulæ at Florence , which are prosecuted under many difficulties ...
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... fact Lord Lindsay infers that this star , which has now fallen to 10.5 magnitude , has actually become a planetary nebula , affording an instance of a remarkable reversal of the process imagined by Laplace in his nebular theory . Lord ...
... fact Lord Lindsay infers that this star , which has now fallen to 10.5 magnitude , has actually become a planetary nebula , affording an instance of a remarkable reversal of the process imagined by Laplace in his nebular theory . Lord ...
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... facts , says that it has been shown by Croll that if the incandescence of this star came from the collision of two bodies , each having half the mass of our sun , and moving 476 miles per second , enough light and heat would be produced ...
... facts , says that it has been shown by Croll that if the incandescence of this star came from the collision of two bodies , each having half the mass of our sun , and moving 476 miles per second , enough light and heat would be produced ...
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... fact , it would seem that the comparative rarity of red stars in catalogues is simply due to the observ- er's attention not having been directed to this point ; and there can be little doubt that a large number of stars of the sixth ...
... fact , it would seem that the comparative rarity of red stars in catalogues is simply due to the observ- er's attention not having been directed to this point ; and there can be little doubt that a large number of stars of the sixth ...
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... fact that these observations of the transit of Venus give a value for the sun's parallax which is considerably less than most of those which have been recently put forward , though still decidedly larger than Encke's result . There ...
... fact that these observations of the transit of Venus give a value for the sun's parallax which is considerably less than most of those which have been recently put forward , though still decidedly larger than Encke's result . There ...
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