History of Physical Astronomy: From the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century. Comprehending a Detailed Account of the Establishment of the Theory of Gravitation by Newton, with an Exposition of the Progress of Research on All the Other Subjects of Celestial Physics |
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... Royal Society upon a permanent basis , a similar association was formed at Paris under the designation of the Royal Academy of Sciences . The first meeting of this celebrated body was held on the 22nd of December , 1666. Some of the ...
... Royal Society upon a permanent basis , a similar association was formed at Paris under the designation of the Royal Academy of Sciences . The first meeting of this celebrated body was held on the 22nd of December , 1666. Some of the ...
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... Royal Society , were authorized to demand of the Astronomer Royal , within six months after the lapse of each successive year , " a true and fair copy of the annual observations he had made . " At a meeting of the Royal Society , held ...
... Royal Society , were authorized to demand of the Astronomer Royal , within six months after the lapse of each successive year , " a true and fair copy of the annual observations he had made . " At a meeting of the Royal Society , held ...
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... Royal Society , which are inserted in the Philosophical Transactions of that body for the years 1803 and 1804. By a comparison of his earlier observations of a great number of double stars , with corresponding observations made after an ...
... Royal Society , which are inserted in the Philosophical Transactions of that body for the years 1803 and 1804. By a comparison of his earlier observations of a great number of double stars , with corresponding observations made after an ...
Contents
Early notions of Physical Astronomy Newton His first Rescarches on the sub | 15 |
CHAPTER II | 33 |
CHAPTER III | 41 |
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