 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1865 - 316 lehte
...localities can be found there, and if the circumstances of weather &c. are favourable, the determination will be excellent ; if those favourable circumstances...hold, no use whatever can be made of the Transit. I extract from the cited Monthly Notices the following sentences bearing on the selection of Southern... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1865 - 874 lehte
...localities can be found there, and if the circumstances of weather, &c., are favourable, the determination will be excellent ; if those favourable circumstances do not hold, no use whatever can bo made of the transit. The Astronomical object of a Southern expedition has already been sufficiently... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1873 - 672 lehte
...of a Southern Expedition is, I trust, sufficiently explained in the sentences which I have quoted. In the event of such an expedition being undertaken,...astronomical question must (from the nature of the case) take precedency of all others. But there would be no difficulty in combining with them any other inquiries,... | |
 | 1873 - 750 lehte
...British scientific expeditions, namely, that of Captain Cook to Otaheite in 1/69, was undertaken.) The astronomical object of a southern expedition is,...undertaken, the precise determinations which I have * It should be noticed that the "Nautical Almanac" for 1874 abundantly confirms all that I had stated.... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1873 - 654 lehte
...localities can be found there, and if the circumstances of weather, &c. are favour-able, the determination will be excellent ; if those favourable circumstances...hold, no use whatever can be made of the transit." Then follow certain sentences from the cited Monthly Notices, sentences bearing on the selection of... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1873 - 672 lehte
...localities can be found there, and if the circumstances of weather, &c. are favourable, the determination will be excellent ; if those favourable circumstances...hold, no use whatever can be made of the transit." Then follow certain sentences from the cited Monthly Notices, sentences bearing on the selection of... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 404 lehte
...localities can be found there, and if the circumstances of weather, &c., are favourable, the determination will be excellent ; if those favourable circumstances...hold, no use whatever can be made of the transit.' Then follow certain sentences from the cited ' Monthly Notices,' sentences bearing on the selection... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 348 lehte
...localities can be found there, and if the circumstances of weather, &c., are favourable, the determination will be excellent; if those favourable circumstances...hold, no use whatever can be made of the transit.' Then follow certain sentences from the cited 1 Monthly Notices,' bearing on the selection of southern... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 480 lehte
...including the passages which I have quoted above. The Astronomer Royal proceeds as follows : — ' The astronomical object of a Southern Expedition is, I trust, sufficiently explained in the sentences which I have quoted. In the event of such an expedition being undertaken, the precise determinations... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1874 - 358 lehte
...including the passages which I have quoted above. The Astronomer Royal proceeds as follows : — ' The astronomical object of a southern expedition is, I trust, sufficiently explained in the sentences which I have quoted. In the event of such an expedition being undertaken, the precise determinations... | |
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... North America, or at Bermuda; all very favourable and very accessible. For the southern stations the selection is not so easy; the observation must be made on the Antarctic Continent ; if proper localities can be found there, and if the circumstances... 