Report of the Annual MeetingJ. Murray., 1858 - Science |
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... Telescope and Equatorial Mountings . By THOMAS GRUBB , M.R.I.A. & c . ..... Report on the Experimental Plots in the Botanical Garden of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester . By JAMES BUCKMAN , F.L.S. , F.A.S. , F.G.S. & c ...
... Telescope and Equatorial Mountings . By THOMAS GRUBB , M.R.I.A. & c . ..... Report on the Experimental Plots in the Botanical Garden of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester . By JAMES BUCKMAN , F.L.S. , F.A.S. , F.G.S. & c ...
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... Telescope Speculum of Silvered Glass ....... Dr. J. H. GLADSTONE on the Colour of Salts in Solution , each Constituent of which is coloured 5 6 on the Effects of Heat on the Colour of Dissolved Salts 8 Mr. THOMAS GRUBB on Improvements ...
... Telescope Speculum of Silvered Glass ....... Dr. J. H. GLADSTONE on the Colour of Salts in Solution , each Constituent of which is coloured 5 6 on the Effects of Heat on the Colour of Dissolved Salts 8 Mr. THOMAS GRUBB on Improvements ...
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... Telescopes and Equatoreal Instruments M. L'ABBÉ MOIGNO on a Method of determining whether the Luminiferous Vibrations are Parallel or Perpendicular to the Plane of Polarization ELECTRICITY , MAGNETISM . ......... ... Page 8 9 Captain ...
... Telescopes and Equatoreal Instruments M. L'ABBÉ MOIGNO on a Method of determining whether the Luminiferous Vibrations are Parallel or Perpendicular to the Plane of Polarization ELECTRICITY , MAGNETISM . ......... ... Page 8 9 Captain ...
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... Telescope , be renewed , " was communicated by the Council to the President and Council of the Royal Society , by whom the steps were taken in 1852 to promote this important object , and a hope was expressed on the part of the ...
... Telescope , be renewed , " was communicated by the Council to the President and Council of the Royal Society , by whom the steps were taken in 1852 to promote this important object , and a hope was expressed on the part of the ...
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... telescope combined with freedom in the motion of the polar axis . The polar axis is driven by a clock driver , which answers perfectly , and is easy of regulation to the greatest nicety , so that the sun's limb remains for a long period ...
... telescope combined with freedom in the motion of the polar axis . The polar axis is driven by a clock driver , which answers perfectly , and is easy of regulation to the greatest nicety , so that the sun's limb remains for a long period ...
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Page 92 - These results are useful as far as they go, but they do not go far enough, and the particulars of the table might be simplified and amended.
Page 88 - ... points of division, and also at the upper and lower points of the depth...
Page 88 - ... area (except the first and last) by two ; add these products together, and to the sum add the first and last if they yield anything; multiply the quantity thus obtained by one-third of the common interval between the areas, and the product will be the cubical contents of the space under the tonnage deck...
Page 87 - ... taken into the number of equal parts required by the following table, according to the class in such table to which the ship belongs: TABLE...
Page 88 - No. 1 being at the extreme limit of the length at the bow, and the...
Page xvii - To give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to scientific inquiry, — to promote the intercourse of those who cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with one another and with foreign philosophers, — to obtain a more general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.
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Page 89 - ... in a direction perpendicular to the keel from the height so marked on the outside of the ship on the one side to the height so marked on the other side by passing a chain under the keel...
Page 89 - Measure the length on the tonnage deck from the outside of the outer plank at the stem to the aftside of the stern-post, deducting therefrom the distance between the aftside of the stern-post and the rabbet of the stern-post at the point where the counter plank crosses it; measure also the greatest breadth of the ship to the outside of the outer planking or wales, and then, having first marked on the outside of the...