Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Томи 7 – 8American Philosophical Society, 1861 |
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... fact that it was kept , during that time , in a room very much over heated by a large iron stove . The weather during this time was very cold out of doors , and , fearing the chronometer might be subject to too cold an atmos- phere ...
... fact that it was kept , during that time , in a room very much over heated by a large iron stove . The weather during this time was very cold out of doors , and , fearing the chronometer might be subject to too cold an atmos- phere ...
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... Lyræ , combined with the fact that the latitude - which becomes a term in the equation for computing the time ; was not closely determined , induces us to doubt if our chrono- meter error can be depended on to - night , 100.
... Lyræ , combined with the fact that the latitude - which becomes a term in the equation for computing the time ; was not closely determined , induces us to doubt if our chrono- meter error can be depended on to - night , 100.
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... fact , in connection and in harmony with other specific differences of men not as men , but as animals . Yet until this is done , comparative philology has obtained no starting point . The second department of philology is that of pure ...
... fact , in connection and in harmony with other specific differences of men not as men , but as animals . Yet until this is done , comparative philology has obtained no starting point . The second department of philology is that of pure ...
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... fact that all use the same elements in the same endless round of composition , and cannot get out of this round ; that the presence of the same words in two or more languages is therefore no prima facie evidence of kinship between the ...
... fact that all use the same elements in the same endless round of composition , and cannot get out of this round ; that the presence of the same words in two or more languages is therefore no prima facie evidence of kinship between the ...
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... fact were possible . Yet we see how they merely play different groups of runs upon the same gamut . They were selected also as good examples of a principal or type arrangement of the ele- ments in the full form , Ka Ba Ra Ta , the ...
... fact were possible . Yet we see how they merely play different groups of runs upon the same gamut . They were selected also as good examples of a principal or type arrangement of the ele- ments in the full form , Ka Ba Ra Ta , the ...
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12 observations 1st Mean 1st Result-Chronometer 1st Set 2d Result-Chronometer 2d Set 9 observations Acad Academy April Buffalo Chicago by mean Chicago mean solar Chicago observing station Chicago reduced sidereal Chicago signals circum-meridian altitudes City of Rock Cleveland comparison-Chronometer correct sidereal Cygni dated deceased dereal Difference of Longitude Dunleith east Electric signals sent Elyria fast at 15h fast of sidereal following donations Franklin Institute Fulton Geminorum goth Inst Isaac Lea January John Reynell Journal June Latitude Leonis letter Library were announced Longitude of Chicago Madison March mean solar Chronometer mean solar day meridian of Chicago meridian of Greenwich Michigan City Nuttall Pending nomination Philadelphia Polaris Prairie du Chien Proceedings Prof Rate per sidereal Report Result adopted-Chronometer Result-Chronometer Rock Island sent from Chicago Sidereal chronometer sidereal day signals given slow of mean station at 10h Toledo
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