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... minutes , and by Lansberg to be eleven , but which I believe to be scarcely greater than one minute . ' In describing the method which he adopted for observing the transit , Hórrox writes as follows : ' Having attentively examined Venus ...
... minutes , and by Lansberg to be eleven , but which I believe to be scarcely greater than one minute . ' In describing the method which he adopted for observing the transit , Hórrox writes as follows : ' Having attentively examined Venus ...
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... minute three 2 7 A fresco by the late Mr. Ford Maddox - Brown , depicting Crabtree observing the transit of Venus , adorns the interior of the Manchester Town Hall . seconds ; Horrox having found it to be one minute 68 THE ASTRONOMY OF ...
... minute three 2 7 A fresco by the late Mr. Ford Maddox - Brown , depicting Crabtree observing the transit of Venus , adorns the interior of the Manchester Town Hall . seconds ; Horrox having found it to be one minute 68 THE ASTRONOMY OF ...
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... minute stars with a prominent one in its centre ; and in the constellation of the Southern Cross there is a cluster which , on account of the varied colours of its component stars , has been compared by Sir John Herschel to ' a piece of ...
... minute stars with a prominent one in its centre ; and in the constellation of the Southern Cross there is a cluster which , on account of the varied colours of its component stars , has been compared by Sir John Herschel to ' a piece of ...
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE I A SHORT HISTORICAL SKETCH OF ASTRONOMY | 1 |
ASTRONOMY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY | 45 |
MILTONS ASTRONOMICAL KNOWLEDGE | 81 |
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