Download or read book James M Gilliss and the American Determination of the Solar Parallax written by Wendell W. Huffman and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Observations to Determine the Solar Parallax written by James Melville Gilliss and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Sky and Ocean Joined written by Steven J. Dick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the oldest scientific institutions in the United States, the US Naval Observatory has a rich and colourful history. This volume is, first and foremost, a story of the relations between space, time and navigation, from the rise of the chronometer in the United States to the Global Positioning System of satellites, for which the Naval Observatory provides the time to a billionth of a second per day. It is a story of the history of technology, in the form of telescopes, lenses, detectors, calculators, clocks and computers over 170 years. It describes how one scientific institution under government and military patronage has contributed, through all the vagaries of history, to almost two centuries of unparalleled progress in astronomy. Sky and Ocean Joined will appeal to historians of science, technology, scientific institutions and American science, as well as astronomers, meteorologists and physicists.
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Download or read book astronomical and meteorological observations made at the united states naval observatory during the year 1862 written by JOHN R. EASTMAN and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book On the relative accuracy of different methods of determining the solar parallax written by William Harkness and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
