Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 41; Volume 104John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell Leavitt, Throw and Company, 1885 |
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... render it less obnoxious ? Or is this an ultimate barrier , set up by Nature herself , to stop the way of astronomical progress ? Much depends upon the answer - more than can , in a few words , be easily made to appear ; but there is ...
... render it less obnoxious ? Or is this an ultimate barrier , set up by Nature herself , to stop the way of astronomical progress ? Much depends upon the answer - more than can , in a few words , be easily made to appear ; but there is ...
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... render the Peak of Teneriffe wholly unfit to be the site of a modern observatory . Within the last thirty years a ... rendered certain by the well - authen- ticated instance ( related by Humboldt , " Cos- mos , " vol . iii . p . 66 ...
... render the Peak of Teneriffe wholly unfit to be the site of a modern observatory . Within the last thirty years a ... rendered certain by the well - authen- ticated instance ( related by Humboldt , " Cos- mos , " vol . iii . p . 66 ...
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... rendering this important service to science was adjudged to the highest summit in the United States . The Sierra Nevada culminates in a granite pile , rising , somewhat in the form of a gigantic helmet , fronting eastwards , to a height ...
... rendering this important service to science was adjudged to the highest summit in the United States . The Sierra Nevada culminates in a granite pile , rising , somewhat in the form of a gigantic helmet , fronting eastwards , to a height ...
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... rendered observation all but impossible within a range of 30 degrees from the zenith , thus excluding the most serene portion of the sky ; moreover , his arrival was delayed until December 25th , when the weather was thoroughly broken ...
... rendered observation all but impossible within a range of 30 degrees from the zenith , thus excluding the most serene portion of the sky ; moreover , his arrival was delayed until December 25th , when the weather was thoroughly broken ...
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... render the station available for astronomical purposes as well . * The important tasks in progress at the Paris observatory have of late been sin- gularly impeded by bad weather . Dur- ing the latter half of 1882 scarcely four or five ...
... render the station available for astronomical purposes as well . * The important tasks in progress at the Paris observatory have of late been sin- gularly impeded by bad weather . Dur- ing the latter half of 1882 scarcely four or five ...
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