 | John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1838 - 160 pages
...DICTIONARY OF ASTRONOMICAL TERMS. Aberration, is an apparent motion of the celestial bodies, arising from the progressive motion of light, and the earth's annual motion in its orbit. Absolute Equation, is the sum of the optic and eccentric equations. Acceleration. The diurnal Acceleration... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1844 - 1142 pages
...deviation from truth or moral rectitude ; deviation from a strait line — 2. In astronomy, a small apparent motion of the fixed stars, occasioned by...motion of light and the earth's annual motion In its orbil.— 3. In tptiu, a deviation In the rays of light, when intlccted by a lens. — Crow* nf aberration,... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 838 pages
...Vulgar Errors, p. 'Jo'9. ABERRATION, in Astronomy, an apparent motion of the celestial bodies, produced by the progressive motion of light and the earth's annual motion in her orbit. ABERSPERG, anciently ABUSIXA or AVEXTINUM, a town and castle in Upper Bavaria, on the river... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1846 - 1116 pages
...deviation from truth or moral rectitude ; deviation from a strait line. — 2. In astronomy, a small apparent motion of the fixed stars, occasioned by...light and the earth's annual motion In its orbit. — 3. In optics, a deviation in the ray* of light, when inflected by a lens. — CVotrw of aberration^... | |
 | Augustus Young - Circle-squaring - 1846 - 304 pages
...of light, which, in astronomy, has become technical in its use and signification, denoting a small apparent motion of the fixed stars, occasioned by...light and the earth's annual motion in its orbit. And although the hypothesis has, since his announcement of it, been elaborated into a systern or branch... | |
 | Augustus Young - Circle-squaring - 1846 - 304 pages
...astronomy, has become technical in its use and signification, denoting a small apparent motion of ihe fixed stars, occasioned by the progressive motion...light and the earth's annual motion in its orbit. And although the hypothesis has, since his announcement of it, been elaborated into a system or branch... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...TERMS. ACO ABERRATION (ofcrro, to wander from). The apparent motion of the heavenly bodies, produced by the progressive motion of light and the earth's annual motion in its orbit. ABSOLUTE EQUATION. The sum of the optic and eccentric equations. ACCELERATION (occefero, to hasten).... | |
 | Noah Webster - English language - 1846 - 1116 pages
...deviation from truth or moral rectitude •, deviation from a strait line. — 2. In astronomy, a small apparent motion of the fixed stars, occasioned by the progressive motion of light and tile earth's annual motion in its orbit. — 3. In optics, a deviation in the rays of light, when inflected... | |
 | John Boag - English language - 1848 - 816 pages
...way; deviation from truth or moral rectitude; deviation from a straight line. In agronomy, a small apparent motion of the fixed stars, occasioned by the progressive motion of light on the earth's annual motion in its orbit. In Wtirs, a deviation in the rays of light, when Inflected... | |
 | John Weale - Architecture - 1850 - 600 pages
...n abbey or us classes of siered, carnmendatory irly times of rchitecture, ABE ABUSES. ABU casioned by the progressive motion of light and the earth's annual motion in its orbit Aberration, in optics, the deviation or dispersion of the rays of light whea reflected by a lens, by... | |
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For I perceived that, if light was propagated in time, the apparent place of a fixed object would not be the same when the eye is at rest, as when it is moving in any other direction than that of the line passing through the eye and... 
