 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...regulate his clock to the true sidereal time of his station. It is evident that if one of these clocks could be taken up without deranging its going, and...their local epochs; that is, by the time occupied by the equinox, or by any star, in passing from the meridian of A to that of B : in other words, by their... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...regulate his clock to the true sidereal time of his station. It is evident that if one of these clocks could be taken up without deranging its going, and...their local epochs ; that is, by the time occupied by the equinox, or by any star, in passing from the meridian of A to that of B : in other words, by their... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...regulate his clock to the true sidereal time of his station. It is evident that if one of these clocks could be taken up without deranging its going, and...their local epochs ; that is, by the time occupied by the equinox, or by any star, in passing from the meridian of A to that of B; in other %vords, by their... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1849 - 654 pages
...regulate his clock to the true sidereal time of his station. It is evident that if one of these clocks could be taken up without deranging its going, and...their local epochs ; that is by the time occupied by the equinox, or by any star in pasting from the meridhn of A to that of B ; in other words, by their... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1849 - 650 pages
...regulate his clock to the true eidereal time of his station. It is evident that if one of these clocks could be taken up without deranging its going, and...their local epochs ; that is by the time occupied by the equinox, or by any star in passing from the meridinn of A to that of E ; in other words, by their... | |
 | Technology - 1849 - 656 pages
...regulate his clock to the true sidereal time of his station. It is evident that if one of these clocks could be taken up without deranging its going, and set down by ihe side of the other, they would bf found on comparison to differ by the exact difference of their... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1853 - 608 pages
...regulate his clock to the true sidereal time of his station. It is evident that if one of these clocks could be taken up without deranging its going, and...they would be found, on comparison, to differ by the exnct difference of their local epochs; that is, by the time occupied by the equinox, or by any star,... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1861 - 588 pages
...regulate his clock to the true sidereal time of his station. It is evident that if ,one of these clocks could be taken up without deranging its going, and set down by the side f'f the other, they would be found, on comparison, to differ by the exact difference of their local... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 992 pages
...would thus be exhibited ; and this difference is exactly the time occupied by the equinoctial point, or by any star in passing from the meridian of A to that of B ; or it is the difference of longitude of the two places expressed in sidereal hours, minutes, and seconds.... | |
 | William Thomas Brande - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 968 pages
...would thus be exhibited ; and this difference is exactly the time occupied by the equinoctial point, or by any star in passing from the meridian of A to that of В ; or it is the difference of longitude of the two places expressed in sidereal hours, minutes, and... | |
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Suppose, now, two observers, at distant stations, A and B, each independently of the other, to set and regulate his clock to the true sidereal time of his station. It is evident that if one of these clocks could be taken up without deranging its going,... 
