| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1848 - 648 pages
...time of its culmination." Petersb. Comment. XXXIV. Investigations relative to the Problem for Clearing the Apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun or a Star, from the effects of Parallax and Refraction ; and an easy and concise Method pointed out. By Dr. Brinckley... | |
| Technology - 1848 - 652 pages
...time of its culmination." Pelersb. Comment. XXXIV. Investigations relative to the Problem for Clearing the Apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun or a Star, from the effects of Parallax and Refraction ; and an easy and concise Method pointed out. By Dr. Brinckley... | |
| Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 pages
...Observations in the " Practical Navigator," Dr. Bowditch has introduced an improved method of correcting the apparent distance of the moon from the sun or a star, which was suggested by that great man : whom he justly characterizes as " eminently distinguished for... | |
| Nicolas Trübner - American literature - 1859 - 738 pages
...the same work, relating to the Figure of the Earth, by Nathaniel Bowditch 30 4. Method of correcting the Apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star, for the effects of Parallax and Refraction, by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. . 60 5. On the Method of Computing... | |
| Nicolas Trübner - 1859 - 748 pages
...the same work, relating to the Figure of the Earth, by Nathaniel Bowditch 30 4. Method of correcting the Apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star, for the effects of Parallax and Refraction, by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. . 50 5. On the Method of Computing... | |
| John Daniel Runkle - Mathematics - 1860 - 590 pages
...should not Jbe given to inaccurate ideas on the subject, by that popular work. 15. Method of Correcting the apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star, for the Effects of Parallax, and Refraction, [pp. 24-31.] This is but the rule given in the Practical... | |
| 1860 - 462 pages
...should not be given to inaccurate ideas on the subject, by that popular work. 15. Method of Correcting the apparent Distance of the Moon from the Sun, or a Star, for the Effects of Parallax, and Refraction, [pp. 24-31.] This is but the rule given in the Practical... | |
| Johann Christian Poggendorff - 1863 - 818 pages
...to describe a given curve etc. (Ib. XI, 4840). Investigations relative to the problem for clearing the apparent distance of the moon from the sun or a star from the effects of parallax and refraction etc. (Ib. id.). Account of observations made at the Observatory... | |
| Boston Athenaeum - American literature - 1874 - 732 pages
...earth. by means of the observed lengtbs of a pendulum in different latitudes ; — Metbod of correcting the apparent distance of the moon from the sun, or a star, for the effects of parallax and refraction ; — Method of computing the dip of the magnetic needle... | |
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