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order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, 1820
 

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Página 147 - GENERAL TABLES for correcting the Apparent Distance of the Moon and a STAR or the Sun from the Effects of Refraction and Parallax, in 276 Sheets in folio.
Página 148 - XIV. A SEXAGESIMAL TABLE, exhibiting at Sight the Result of any Proportion where the Terms do not ex-ceed 60 Minutes; and a- MILLESIMAL TABLE of proportional Parts, with other useful Tables.
Página 131 - Proportion must be made according to the daily Difference, to find what it should be at any given Time reduced to the same Meridian, as in the preceding Articles. The last Column of this Page, containing the daily Differences of the Equation, is designed for this Purpose.
Página ix - Tables, he shall forfeit for every such Demand or Receipt the Sum of Twenty Pounds, to be recovered by Action of Debt in any...
Página iii - Act, as shall be thought expedient, and, subject as aforesaid, that the said recited Acts shall be and the same are hereby repealed...
Página 131 - Greenwich, making Proportion according to the Daily Increase or Decrease, in like manner as was shown with respect to the Sun's Longitude.
Página xiii - Highness is further pleased, in the name and on the behalf of his Majesty, and by and with the advice...
Página 148 - A SEXCENTENARY TABLE, exhibiting at Sight the Result of any Proportion where the Terms do not exceed 600 Seconds or 10 Minutes.
Página 131 - Motion, such as that of Clocks and Watches ought to be. This Retardation or Acceleration of the Sun's coming to the Meridian is called the Equation of Time...
Página 127 - Day are the same in this Method as in the civil Account at Noon, and from Noon till Midnight; but from Midnight till Noon they differ; for whereas in the civil Account a...

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