10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «URANOMETRY»
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uranometry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
uranometry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Celestial Treasury: From the Music of the Spheres to the ...
Uranometry. Mapping the Sky Naming the Stars The Development of Celestial
Atlases The Depths of Space From the earliest times man has plotted the stars
onto charts in order to be able to find his way about the sky. Measurements were
...
Marc Lachièze-Rey, Jean-Pierre Luminet, 2001
radii of the spheres corresponding to the magnitudes visi- \ ble to the eye from 1
to 6. As the catalogue of circum- polar stars is not complete, nor uniform in
classification with the Uranometry, it is better to employ the numbers of
Argelander for ...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts
My last letter to you was written in the beginning of Sept, 1872, at which time I
gave you some account of the progress of the Uranometry, and of the
preparations which were then going on for the commencement of the long
deferred work of the ...
As the catalogue of circum- polar stars is not complete, nor uniform in
classification with the Uranometry, it is better to employ the numbers of
Argelander for the northern hemisphere, rejecting the southern stars of his
Uranometry. In these it is ...
Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel, 1848
With irrepressible industry he composed his beautiful work, the New Uranometry,
or charts of the stars visible to the naked eye in central Europe, with their true
magnitudes taken immediately from the sky. Taking up the field, hitherto but little
...
The problems of uranometry, as we have described it, consist in the solution of a
variety of spherical triangles, both right and oblique angled, according to the
rules, and by the formula? of spherical trigonometry, which we suppose known to
the ...
Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1865
He has just published his new " Uranometry of the Southern Heavens," including
all stars visible to the naked eye, the magnitude of each star being determined by
not less than four independent observations. In the course of these researches ...
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American Journal of Science: An International Earth Science ...
For the revision with this new scale, I divided the hundred degrees of declination
which compose the field of our Uranometry into 35 charts, each mapped upon a
scale nearly double that of the first series, which was easily attained by ...
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The American Journal of Science
I trust that the completion of the Uranometry will occupy us only a few months
more, though naturally it may be somewhat retarded by the distraction of our
forces in using the instruments which are soon to come into activity. Immediately
upon ...
10
The International Review
This has been done so as to make the limits of the constellations of the Argentine
Uranometry usually arcs of great circles on the celestial sphere, instead of
capriciously curved lines with no raison d'etre except as the representatives of
the ...
