Supplementary Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Astronomical Society: June 1884 to June 1898

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Royal Astronomical Society, 1900 - 175 pages
 

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Page 109 - Moxon (Joseph) A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography, or an easie and speedy way to know the Use of both the Globes...
Page 64 - It is entitled The Principles of Natural Philosophy, in which is shown the insufficiency of the present systems to give us any just account of that science — and the necessity there is of some new principles in order to furnish us with a true and real knowledge of nature.
Page 142 - SCHELLEN'S SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, in its application to Terrestrial Substances and the Physical Constitution of the Heavenly Bodies. Translated by JANE and C. LASSELL; edited, with Notes, by W. HUGGINS, LL.D. FRS With 13 Plates (6 coloured) and 223 Woodcuts. 8vo. price 28s. CELESTIAL OBJECTS for COMMON TELESCOPES.
Page 107 - The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy.
Page 128 - THE MEAN DENSITY OF THE EARTH : An Essay to which the Adams Prize was adjudged in 1893 in the University of Cambridge. By JH POYNTING, Sc.D., FRS, Late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge; Professor of Physics, Birmingham University. In Large 8vo, with Bibliography, Illustrations in the Text, and Seven Lithographed Plates. 12s. 6d. " Cannot fail to be of GREAT and GENERAL INTEREST."— Athenteum.
Page 172 - On the evidence afforded by Bode's Law of a permanent Contraction of the Radii Vectores of the Planetary Orbits.
Page 62 - AN ASTRONOMICAL GLOSSARY. Or, Dictionary of Terms used in Astronomy. With Tables of Data and Lists of Remarkable and Interesting Celestial Objects. By J. ELLARD GORE, FRAS, Author of " The Visible Universe,
Page 112 - Upon the relation which the former Orbits of those Meteorites that are in our collections, and that were seen to fall, had to the Earth's Orbit.
Page 140 - The total eclipse of the sun, January 1, 1889. A report of the observations made by the Washington University Eclipse Party, at Norman, California. 1891.
Page 19 - On the changes of the radiation of heat from the moon during the total eclipse of 1884, Oct. 4, as measured at the Observatory, Birr. Castle, by Otto Bceddicker, Ph.

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