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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... finds that fully three fourths of the light of a fine night comes from stars which are individually invisible to the naked eye , and that on his hypothesis the total light of all the stars of the Durchmusterung is equal to 10.17 × Venus ...
... finds that fully three fourths of the light of a fine night comes from stars which are individually invisible to the naked eye , and that on his hypothesis the total light of all the stars of the Durchmusterung is equal to 10.17 × Venus ...
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... finds this period to be about thirty - five days , as before . This periodic change of color must , then , be admitted , and it is the first one which rests on a sure basis , and which regularly recurs at short intervals . Pogson's ...
... finds this period to be about thirty - five days , as before . This periodic change of color must , then , be admitted , and it is the first one which rests on a sure basis , and which regularly recurs at short intervals . Pogson's ...
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... finds to be 11.111 years ± 0.307 ; but single periods may be two years longer or shorter than the mean . The maximum is nearer the pre- ceding minimum than the following one . A longer period of about 178 years ( not 55 ) is also ...
... finds to be 11.111 years ± 0.307 ; but single periods may be two years longer or shorter than the mean . The maximum is nearer the pre- ceding minimum than the following one . A longer period of about 178 years ( not 55 ) is also ...
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... finds that the ensemble of the observations leads to corrections to the elements which are quite inad- missible . The omission of the observations of 1873 leads to elements which almost perfectly represent the observations of 1872 ...
... finds that the ensemble of the observations leads to corrections to the elements which are quite inad- missible . The omission of the observations of 1873 leads to elements which almost perfectly represent the observations of 1872 ...
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... find from excessive faintness . The secondary tail to comet b I discovered , and published a de- scription of it in our city papers , long before I heard of its discovery in Europe . Office of " The James Lick Trust . " The specific ...
... find from excessive faintness . The secondary tail to comet b I discovered , and published a de- scription of it in our city papers , long before I heard of its discovery in Europe . Office of " The James Lick Trust . " The specific ...
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