Astronomical Register: A Medium of Communication for Amateur Observers and All Others Interested in the Science of Astronomy, Volumen8J. D. Potter., 1871 |
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... Proctor , on the Corona , 72 264 Laws of Star Grouping , Milky Way , 7 the Resolvability of Star Groups as a Test ... Proctor's New Star Atlas , 161 Other Worlds than Ours , 143 Tyndall's Electrical Phenomena , 201 tion , 201 Heat , a ...
... Proctor , on the Corona , 72 264 Laws of Star Grouping , Milky Way , 7 the Resolvability of Star Groups as a Test ... Proctor's New Star Atlas , 161 Other Worlds than Ours , 143 Tyndall's Electrical Phenomena , 201 tion , 201 Heat , a ...
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... Proctor took part . On Auroral Appearances , and their Connection with the Phe- nomena of Terrestrial Magnetism ; by Mr. Balfour Stewart . Some years ago the author suggested that auroras might be produced by secondary currents caused ...
... Proctor took part . On Auroral Appearances , and their Connection with the Phe- nomena of Terrestrial Magnetism ; by Mr. Balfour Stewart . Some years ago the author suggested that auroras might be produced by secondary currents caused ...
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... Proctor . This is an attempt to account for the chief appearances of the Milky Way on a spiral theory . The idea was not new , having been thrown out by the late Professor Nichol , but had been worked out and illustrated with diagrams ...
... Proctor . This is an attempt to account for the chief appearances of the Milky Way on a spiral theory . The idea was not new , having been thrown out by the late Professor Nichol , but had been worked out and illustrated with diagrams ...
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... Proctor on Jupiter's Satellites , in which a fignre is given of the shadows of each of them , with a statement that ... Proctor's notice ; but as it is confirmatory of the latter observation , I am induced to call your readers ...
... Proctor on Jupiter's Satellites , in which a fignre is given of the shadows of each of them , with a statement that ... Proctor's notice ; but as it is confirmatory of the latter observation , I am induced to call your readers ...
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... Proctor's contemplated new Atlas would probably be the best for the stars ) , above half of his assigned capital will have been expended ; and the most judicious mode of laying out the residue must depend upon the parti- cular branch of ...
... Proctor's contemplated new Atlas would probably be the best for the stars ) , above half of his assigned capital will have been expended ; and the most judicious mode of laying out the residue must depend upon the parti- cular branch of ...
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Página 1 - Their line is gone out through all the earth : and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun : Which is as a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoiceth as a strong man to run a race. His going forth is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
Página 49 - President, in the Chair. The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and confirmed. The President appointed as Scrutineers of the Ballot, Mr.
Página 3 - And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field', and every fowl of the air', and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them ' ; and whatsoever Adam called every living creature', that was the name thereof.
Página 199 - We could tell, for example, the number of degrees which this amount of heat would impart to a globe of water equal to the earth, in size. Mayer and Helmholtz have made this calculation, and found that the quantity of heat which would be generated...
Página 199 - ... 7. — The darkness is coming on with insidious steadiness, and its advances can only be perceived by comparing one day with its fellow of some time back. We still read the thermometer at noonday without a light, and the black masses of the hills are plain for about five hours, with their glaring patches of snow ; but all the rest is darkness. The stars of the sixth magnitude shine out at noonday. Except upon...
Página 224 - Linné in the heliometer of the observatory at Bonn, and found it shaped exactly, and with the same throw of shadow, as he remembered to have seen it in 1831. '•' The event," he says, " of whatever nature it might have been, must have passed away without leaving any trace observable by me.
Página 199 - The amount of heat thus developed would be equal to that derived from the combustion of fourteen globes of coal, each equal to the earth in magnitude. And if, after the stoppage of its...
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Página 199 - Spitzbergen, which has the advantages of an insular climate, and tempered by ocean currents, no Christians have wintered in so high a latitude as this.* They are Russian sailors who made the encounter there — men inured to hardships and cold. Our darkness has ninety days to run before we shall get back again even to the contested twilight of to-day. Altogether our winter will have been sunless for one hundred and forty days.