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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... half the mass of our sun , and moving 476 miles per second , enough light and heat would be produced to cover the sun's radiation ( at the present rate ) for 50,000,000 years . As so much light , etc. , has not been produced , Lockyer ...
... half the mass of our sun , and moving 476 miles per second , enough light and heat would be produced to cover the sun's radiation ( at the present rate ) for 50,000,000 years . As so much light , etc. , has not been produced , Lockyer ...
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... half the size of the maps to the Durchmusterung . From the annual report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors we learn that the new nine - year catalogue is well under way , and that Sir George Airy will publish his ...
... half the size of the maps to the Durchmusterung . From the annual report of the Astronomer Royal to the Board of Visitors we learn that the new nine - year catalogue is well under way , and that Sir George Airy will publish his ...
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... half an hour to the times of an- cient eclipses as hitherto calculated from the tables . This correction so changes the computed paths of the moon's shadow during total eclipses that the chronological ques- tions involved in them will ...
... half an hour to the times of an- cient eclipses as hitherto calculated from the tables . This correction so changes the computed paths of the moon's shadow during total eclipses that the chronological ques- tions involved in them will ...
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... half a mile east of the college , and was completed in 1876. It has a front on the south of sixty - five feet . On the east is the Equatorial Room , of brick , cir- cular on the inside . The entire dome , twenty - four feet in diameter ...
... half a mile east of the college , and was completed in 1876. It has a front on the south of sixty - five feet . On the east is the Equatorial Room , of brick , cir- cular on the inside . The entire dome , twenty - four feet in diameter ...
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... half years I have done my observing- comet - seeking a specialty - from the flat roof of an elevated building commanding in every direction an unobstructed horizon . Arrangements are pending for a regularly equipped observatory , with ...
... half years I have done my observing- comet - seeking a specialty - from the flat roof of an elevated building commanding in every direction an unobstructed horizon . Arrangements are pending for a regularly equipped observatory , with ...
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