Author : R. S. Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1331921139
Smithsonian Geographical Tables (Classic Reprint) by R. S. Woodward Pdf
Excerpt from Smithsonian Geographical Tables In connection with the system of meteorological observations established by the Smithsonian Institution about 1850, a series of meteorological tables was compiled by Dr. Arnold Guyot, at the request of Secretary Henry, and was published in 1852 as a volume of the Miscellaneous Collections. A second edition was published in 1857, and a third edition, with further amendments, in 1859. Though primarily designed for meteorological observers reporting to the Smithsonian Institution, the tables were so widely used by meteorologists and physicists that, after twenty-five years of valuable service, the work was again revised, and a fourth edition was published in 1884. In a few years the demand for the tables exhausted the edition, and it appeared to me desirable to recast the work entirely, rather than to undertake its revision again. After careful consideration I decided to publish the new work in three parts: Meteorological Tables, Geographical Tables, and Physical Tables, each representative of the latest knowledge in its field, and independent of the others; but the three forming a homogeneous series. Although thus historically related to Doctor Guyot's Tables, the present work is so entirely changed with respect to material, arrangement, and presentation, that it is not a fifth edition of the older tables, but essentially a new publication. The first volume of the new series of Smithsonian Tables (the Meteorological Tables) appeared in 1893. The present volume, forming the second of the series, the Geographical Tables, has been prepared by Professor R. S. Woodward, formerly of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, but now of Columbia College, New York, who has brought to the work a very wide experience both in field work and in the reduction of extensive geodetic observations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
