 Venus for determining the solar parallax. The idea of utilizing such transits for this purpose seems to have been vaguely conceived by James Gregory, or perhaps even by Horrocks, but Halley was the first to work it out completely, and long after his death...  Astronomy and Astro-physics - Página 5751894Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1895 - 758 páginas
...ultimately bore fruit in the shape of his celebrated paper of 1716, wherein he showed the peculiar advantages of transits of Venus for determining the...not from Mercury, or the sun itself. The explanation depends on two facts. Firstly, the nearest approach of these bodies to the earth is for Mars 33,870,000... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1883 - 818 páginas
...instrumental in inducing the governments of Europe to undertake the observations of the transits of Venus. of 1761 and 1769, from which our first accurate knowledge of the Sun's distance was obtained. When Keplerhad finished his Rudolphine tables they furnished the means of predicting the places of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1883 - 856 páginas
...instrumental in inducing the governments of Europe to undertake the observations of the transits of Venus of 1761 and 1769, from which our first accurate knowledge of the Sun's distance was obtained. When Kepler had finished his Rudolphine tables they furnished the means of predicting the places of... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1883 - 420 páginas
...instrumental in inducing the governments of Europe to undertake the observations of the transits of 'Venus of 1761 and 1769, from which our first accurate knowledge of the Sun's distance was obtained. When Keplerhad finished his Rudolphine tables they furnished the means of predicting the places of... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1883 - 660 páginas
...instrumental in inducing the governments of Europe to undertake the observations of the transits of Venus of 1761 and 1769, from which our first accurate knowledge of the Sun's distance »as obtained. When Kepler had finished his Rudolphine tables they furnished the mean; of predicting... | |
 | 1894 - 1214 páginas
...for this purpose seems to have been vaguely conceived by James Gregory, or perhaps even by Ilorrocks, but Halley was the first to work it out completely,...not from Mercury, or the sun itself. The explanation depends on two facts. Firstly, the nearest approach of these bodies to the earth is for Mars 33,S74,000... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1895 - 818 páginas
...ultimately bore fruit in the shape of his celebrated paper of 1716, wherein he showed the peculiar advantages of transits of Venus for determining the...not from Mercury, or the sun itself. The explanation depends on two facts. Firstly, the nearest approach of these bodies to the earth is for Mars 33,870,000... | |
 | 1895 - 522 páginas
...peculiar advantages of transits of Venus for determining the solar parallax. The idea of utilising such transits for this purpose seems to have been...not from Mercury, or the sun itself. The explanation depends on two facts. Firstly, the nearest approach of these bodies to the earth is for Mars 33,870,000... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1895 - 620 páginas
...The idea of utilizing such transits for this purpose seems to have been vaguely conceived by Janies Gregory, or perhaps even by Horrocks, but Halley was...not from Mercury, or the sun itself. The explanation depends on two facts. First, the nearest approach of these bodies to the earth is for Mars 33,874,000... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1895 - 622 páginas
...completely, and long after his death his paper was mainly instrumental in inducing (he governments of Kurope to undertake the observations of the transits of Venus...not from Mercury, or the sun itself. The explanation depends on two facts. First, the nearest approach of these bodies to the earth is for Mars 33,874,000... | |
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