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Horary Tables For Finding The Time By Inspection To Facilitate The Operations For Obtaining The Longitude At Sea By Chronometers And Lunar Observations To Which Is Added By Way Of Appendix An Easy Method Of Clearing The Observed Distance Of The Effects Of Refraction And Parallax With New Tables Etc Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Horary Tables For Finding The Time By Inspection To Facilitate The Operations For Obtaining The Longitude At Sea By Chronometers And Lunar Observations To Which Is Added By Way Of Appendix An Easy Method Of Clearing The Observed Distance Of The Effects Of Refraction And Parallax With New Tables Etc book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.
Author : Thomas LYNN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024421094
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455968
Author : British Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1070 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Electronic
ISBN : SRLF:A0007886187
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015073453964
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : English imprints
ISBN : IND:30000092329485
Author : British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030015571443
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : English imprints
ISBN : PSU:000030000964
Author : Auguste Comte
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Philosophy, Modern
ISBN : HARVARD:32044012632121
Author : Bessie Zaban Jones,Lyle Gifford Boyd
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674374606
Since its founding in 1839, the Harvard College Observatory has pioneered in the development of modern astronomy. Its first directors early recognized the potential of spectroscopy in revealing the constitution of the stars, and of photography in determining the positions and motions of celestial objects; the library of photographic plates made under their direction provides an invaluable history of the stellar universe for the period. The Observatory also pioneered in using the talents of women, several of whom became noted astronomers, and their monumental classification of stars from spectral records constitutes a fundamental contribution to astronomical knowledge. The authors vividly portray the genesis, growth, and achievements of a major scientific institution and its relations with other observatories. Through the use of photographs and correspondence they also portray the men and women who played essential roles in the development of astronomy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : Parallax
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 1463655908
Samuel Birley Rowbotham, under the pseudonym 'Parallax', lectured for two decades up and down Britain promoting his unique flat earth theory. This book, in which he lays out his world system, went through three editions, starting with a 16 page pamphlet published in 1849 and a second edition of 221 pages published in 1865. The third edition of 1881 (which had inflated to 430 pages) was used as the basis of this etext. Rowbotham was an accomplished debater who reputedly steamrollered all opponents, and his followers, who included many well-educated people, were equally tenacious. One of them, John Hampden, got involved in a bet with the famous naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace about the flat earth. An experiment which Hampden proposed didn't resolve the issue, and the two ended up in court in 1876. The judge ruled against Hampton, who started a long campaign of legal harassment of Wallace. Rowbotham hints at the incident in this book. Rowbotham believed that the earth is flat. The contients float on an infinite ocean which somehow has a layer of fire underneath it. The lands we know are surrounded by an infinite wilderness of ice and snow, beyond the Antarctic ocean, bordered by an immense circular ice-cliff. What we call the North Pole is in the center of the earth. The polar projection of the flat earth creates obvious discrepancies with known geography, particularly the farther south you go. Figure 54 inadvertantly illustrates this problem. The Zetetic map has a severly squashed South America and Africa, and Australia and New Zealand in the middle of the Pacific. I think that by the 19th century people would have noticed if Australia and Africa were thousands of miles further apart than expected, let alone if Africa was wider than it was long! The Zetetic Sun, moon, planets and stars are all only a few hundred miles above the surface of the earth. The sun orbits the north pole once a day at a constant altitude. The moon is both self-illuminated and semi-transparent. Eclipses can be explained by some unknown object occulting the sun or moon. Zetetic cosmology is 'faith-based', based, that is, on a literal interpretation of selected Biblical quotes. Hell is exactly as advertised, directly below us. Heaven is not a state of mind, it is a real place, somewhere above us. He uses Ussherian Biblical chronology to mock the concept that stars could be millions of light years away. He attacks the concept of a plurality of worlds because no other world than this one is mentioned in the Bible. Rowbotham never adequately explains his alternative astronomy. If the Copernican theory so adequately explains planetary motions, why discard it, and what would he use in its place? What is the sun orbiting around once a day and how does it work like a spotlight, not a 'point source'? If the moon is self-luminous, what creates its phases? If gravity appears to work here on earth, why doesn't it apply to the celestial objects just a few hundred miles up? To make his system work he had to throw out a great deal of science, including the scientific method itself, using instead what he calls a 'Zetetic' method. As far as I can see this is simply a license to employ circular reasoning (e.g., the earth is flat, hence we can see distant lighthouses, hence the earth is flat). Zetetic Astronomy is a key work of flat-earth thought, just as Donnelly's Atlantis, the Antediluvian World is still considered required reading on the subject of Atlantis. If you ever have to debate the flat earth pro or con, this book is a complete agenda of each point that you'll have to argue.
Author : Auguste Comte
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872200507
Contents: Introduction Selected Bibliography Works by Comte in English Translation Works about Comte in English I. The Nature and Importance of the Positive Philosophy II. The Classification of the Positive Sciences Index
Author : William Galbraith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9354150969
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as the same form as it was originally first published. Hence any marks or annotations seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Crossword puzzles
ISBN : OCLC:1259497052
Author : Bruce Bauer
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995-02-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0070052190
Loran and GPS notwithstanding, there will always be a place for the sextant aboard any blue-water boat, if for no other reason than the thrill and mystery of finding one's position on earth by gazing at the heavens. Here is the indispensable reference that should accompany the instrument aboard. Cmdr. Bruce Bauer, a professional navigator and master mariner with the U.S. Merchant Marine, has distilled years of hands-on experience into an eminently readable guide to buying, adjusting, using, and repairing sextants. The Sextant Handbook is dedicated to the premise that electronic navigation devices, while too convenient to disregard, are too vulnerable to rely on exclusively. The book is designed to make beginner and expert alike conversant with this most beautiful and functional of the navigator's tools. Topics include: Assembly and Disassembly Vital Adjustments Avoiding Problems Rough Weather Sightings Oiling and Cleaning Immersion Baths Emergency Silvering Finding and Buying Used Sextants And Much More You'll also find a list of distributors, manufacturers, and dealers worldwide, a discussion of future trends, and numerous helpful hints, including sighting with eyeglasses and using a Rude starfinder. All in a thoroughly revised edition of a book acclaimed by navigation professionals.
Author : Samuel Bawlf
Publisher : D & M Publishers
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926706245
In The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Bawlf offers fascinating insight into life at sea in the sixteenth century, from the dangers of mutiny and the difficulty of understanding patterns of wind and current to the arduous physical challenges faced every day by Drake’s men. But it is Bawlf's assertion of Drake’s whereabouts in the summer of 1579 that gives his book its exciting originality. Based especially on his seminal study of maps produced after the voyage, Bawlf shows with certainty that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska, much farther north than anyone has heretofore imagined, thereby rewriting the history of exploration. He was, Bawlf claims, in search of the western entrance to the fabled Northwest Passage, at which he planned to found England’s first colony, and wrest control of the Pacific from Spain. Drake’s voyage was in fact so far ahead of its time that another 200 years would pass before the eighteenth-century explorers of record reached the northwest coast of North America.
