Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 6Priestley and Weale, 1845 Includes lists of additions to the Society's library, usually separately paged. |
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Page 241 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
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Page 99 - ... become subservient to the purposes of human life, by leading mankind to the discovery of many valuable substances which lie concealed in the lower regions of the earth. May the 13th, 1779, he was elected and admitted a fellow of the royal society. He was also a member of some other philosophical societies, which admitted him of their respective bodies without his previous knowledge ; but so remote was he from any thing that might savour of ostentation, that this circumstance was known only to...
Page 173 - ... of Mr. Baily for the British Association, was announced as completed in our Annual Report for 1843; but it has not yet been published. Mr. Henderson's labours in the Edinburgh Observatory are well known to astronomers from the five volumes of observations which have been published for 1834-1839. A sixth volume is understood to be left nearly ready for publication ; and the observations for the remaining years will, no doubt, still be rendered available to science. The published volumes are prefaced...
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Page 136 - For, even if a change of the motion can, up to the present time, be proved only in two cases, yet will all other cases be rendered thereby liable to suspicion ; and it will be equally difficult, by observations, to free other proper motions from the suspicion of change, and to get such a knowledge of the change as to admit of its amount being calculated.
Page 122 - Read before the Royal Society, March 14, 1811. Phil. Trans., 1811. 7.* A Synopsis of the Principal Elements of Astronomy, deduced from M. Laplace's Exposition du Systenie du Monde. London, 1812. 8vo. 8. A New Chart of History. Large Sheet. London, 1812. Corrected to 1817, with the Third Edition of the following work : 9. Description...
Page 99 - put the astronomical world in possession of a power, which may be said, without exaggeration, to have changed the face of sidereal astronomy.