Download or read book Past Meridian Classic Reprint written by Mrs. L. H. Sigourney and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Past Meridian IT is not considered polite to ask people their age, after the bloom of youth has departed. I would not willingly violate the rules of decorum, or tempt any one to hide the foot-prints of Time, as the Indian warrior covers his track with leaves. Making no invidious inquiry, let me simply whisper in the ear of those who have achieved more than half life's journey, that this book is for them. It is their own exclusive property. It is devoted heart and hand to their interests. Whoever is found reading it, may be suspected to have attained the same ripe age. 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.

Download or read book Meridian and East Mississippi Classic Reprint written by Gray Gray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Meridian and East Mississippi Our estimation of a man's capacity for achievement is usually based upon the things that he has accomplished; we want to know something of his record before we give him our perfect confidence, and so in presenting the claims of Meridian for consideration it is not improper to refer briefly to the results already achieved by those inherent forces that make her character, and a short summary of her growth from Villagehood to her present dignity will not be out of place. 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.

Download or read book Remarks Upon the Establishment of an American Prime Meridian Classic Reprint written by Charles Henry Davis and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Remarks Upon the Establishment of an American Prime Meridian As the best mode of presenting the question fully, of suggesting the scientific and practical considera tions it involves, and thus of inviting the most full and free expression of the views and reflections of the members of the Association, I read a paper before the Association, the same in substance as my letter to the honorable Secretary, which was referred to a com mittee consisting of twenty-two members, from vari ous parts of the country. A second paper, opposed to my own, was read by Professor Holton, which was likewise referred to the same committee. It is well known that a memorial has been gotten up in Boston, New York, and elsewhere, under the influence and direction of Mr. J. Ingersoll Bowditch and Mr. George W. Blunt, adverse to the adoption of an American prime meridian, and recommending, there fore, that we should not publish an American Nau tical Almanac, but that we should publish a British Nautical Almanac in this country. Several of the letters of the committee recommend, without discrim ination, the same thing. 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.

Download or read book Blood Meridian written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-08-11 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 25th ANNIVERSARY EDITION • From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road: an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, Blood Meridian traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who stumbles into the nightmarish world where Indians are being murdered and the market for their scalps is thriving. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.

Download or read book Tables for Azimuths Great Circle Sailing and Reduction to the Meridian written by Harold S. Blackburne and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tables for Azimuths, Great-Circle Sailing, and Reduction to the Meridian: With a New and Up to Any Hours and Body to Above Hours From MeridianIn Table B all the stars not less bright than 10 magnitude have been computed separately for their actual declinations for the epoch 1910 and, as their annual change Of declination is so small, these factors will be sufficiently accurate for all practical purposes for the next thirty or forty years, and no interpolation for declination Will be needed.The whole Of Table 0 has been newly calculated on the lines Of the late Mr. W. H. Rosser's table published in Noris'e Epitome, but this table (including latitudes to contains more than eight times the number of his computations, for the sake _of giving greater accuracy and less interpolation. This plan will, I believe, be more popular with most navigators than that previously given in the writer's Old table, as the azimuth is taken out more directly, and quite accurately enough for all practical purposes.Tables A and B have been worked to five places Of decimals where necessary, and Tables 0 and though only given to the nearest decimal Of a degree, have been calculated throughout to the nearest decimal of a minute for the sake Of accurate checking by differences.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.

Download or read book Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 1833 Classic Reprint written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 1834 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, 1833 I. On the Physical Structure of the Site of Rome, and the adjoining Country. Communicated by the Author, II. Observations on the Deviation of the Compass; with Examples of its fatal influence in some melancholy and dreadful shipwrecks. By the Rev. William scoresby, F. R. S. &c. Communicated by the Author. 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.

Download or read book Notes the Management of Chronometers and the Measurement of Meridian Distances Classic Reprint written by Charles F. A. Shadwell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Notes the Management of Chronometers and the Measurement of Meridian Distances Many scattered hints, and some valuable information relative to the application of chronometers to the accurate deduction of differences of longitude, exist in many detached works, but the subject seems to require condensation on some points, amplification on others, and systematic arrangement as a whole. The object of the Author in the following pages is to attempt to remedy this existing want, and to endeavour to supply naval officers, and others entrusted with the care of chronometers, with a manual of instruction how best to use them, and how to furnish systematic results in recording the meridian distances of the several places visited during their voyages. 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.

Download or read book Bairnson s Ex Meridian Tables written by Bairnson Bairnson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bairnson's Ex-Meridian Tables: Being the Shortest Method Yet Offered to the Public To facilitate this computation these Tables have been compiled, so that the required correction can be taken out by inspection for the purpose of finding the number of minutes of Altitude which the sun has to rise when the observation is made before noon, or what he has fallen when made in the afternoon. In both cases this correction is additive to the sun's observed Altitude, which will give his meridian Altitude, or what it would have been if observed at that place. It will be perceived that in low latitudes the observation must be made nearer to noon than in high latitudes; these Tables are, therefore, of the greatest utility in high latitudes, and where also it is most probably required, on account of the stormy weather which generally prevails there, when the meridian Altitude can seldom be obtained. This method of finding the latitude will, therefore, be found very useful when an Altitude can be obtained near noon (but which is generally considered by seamen as useless after their meridian Altitude has been lost), and although a ship at sea is almost continually changing her time, if the time of the observation be noted by a good watch, which may have been regulated previously to apparent time at the ship, then the difference of longitude made in the interval since it was last regulated, turned into time and subtracted from the time by watch, if the ship has been sailing west, or added to it when sailing east, will give the apparent time of the observation; which if before noon, subtracted from 12 hours, will give the time from noon a.m., otherwise it will be the time from noon p.m., or the watch may be regulated by equal altitudes. But the most correct mode, and that in general use, is to find the apparent time at ship from the chronometer, the ship's longitudebeing generally known within a few minutes of the truth, which, turned into time and applied to the Greenwich time, furnishes the apparent time of the observation as follows. 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.

Download or read book Early Religious Poetry of Persia Classic Reprint written by James Hope Moulton and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Early Religious Poetry of Persia HE fascinating field of Avestan literature has been strangely neglected in our country. I have tried in a modest way to open it up for students of. 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.

Download or read book Meridian Illustrated 1904 written by Wm F. Gray and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-06 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Meridian Illustrated, 1904: A Comprehensive Picture of the Metropolis of Mississippi in Its Historical, Civic, Social, Industrial and Commercial Aspects Meridian, a place dating its real origin to 1866, now containing a population of with four railways completed and five others in contempla tion, upon some of which the work is progressing rapidly, and all of which, will, without a doubt, be built I That is the faith that builds cities; that is the enthusiasm that made it possible for Meridian to achieve the distinction of being the metropolis of Mississippi today. 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.

Download or read book Meridian written by Alice Walker and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A classic novel of both feminism and the Civil Rights movement” in 1960s Atlanta by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple (Ms.). As she approaches the end of her teen years, Meridian Hill has already married, divorced, and given birth to a son. She’s looking for a second chance, and at a small college outside Atlanta, Georgia, in the early 1960s, Meridian discovers the civil rights movement. So fully does the cause guide her life that she’s willing to sacrifice virtually anything to help transform the conditions of a people whose subjugation she shares. Meridian draws from Walker’s own experiences working alongside some of the heroes of the civil rights movement, and the novel stands as a shrewd and affecting document of the dissolution of the Jim Crow South. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Alice Walker including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Download or read book PAST MERIDIAN written by L. H. (Lydia Howard) 1791-18 Sigourney and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book Meridian Circle Observations Made at the Lick Observatory University of California 1896 1901 Classic Reprint written by R. H. Tucker and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-22 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Meridian Observations for Stellar Parallax written by Albert Stowell Flint and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-26 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Meridian Observations for Stellar Parallax: First Series, 1893 '96 Ratio of morning dates of observation to evening dates of observation, With the last ratio given in the table may be compared the following from the data given in Publications of the Washburn Observatory, Vol. VII. P. 6. 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.

Download or read book Journal of Zones Observed with the 8 Inch Meridian Circle During the Years 1888 1890 Classic Reprint written by Arthur Searle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-18 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Journal of Zones Observed With the 8-Inch Meridian Circle During the Years 1888-1890 The letter R, followed by a number, is a reference to a remark too long to be given in the thirteenth column. These Remarks will be found at the end of this volume. One example of the method of revising the computations of Zones 1 - 186, and one of Zones 186 - 663, is given below, beginning with the reduction in right ascension. Compare h.a. 62, 135. 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.

Download or read book Meridian Circle Observations Made at the Lick Observatory University of California 1901 1906 Classic Reprint written by R. H. Tucker and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Meridian Circle Observations Made at the Lick Observatory, University of California, 1901-1906 This third volume of Meridian Circle results contains the observations made for the Zodiacal Catalogue, including those for the determination of the additional Fundamental stars; the observations of a list of stars found among the records of Piazzi, but not included in his Catalogue; and the observations of a list of Latitude stars, for Prof. C. L. Doolittle. Except for the last named list, these observations were made between June I, 1901, and June I, 1904. The results of an investigation of the 10' division errors of the circles, which ended in April, 1905, are also included in this volume. In July, 1905, observations of a fundamental character were begun with the meridian instrument, and will form part of a later volume. During the first year of this undertaking, the above mentioned list of Latitude stars was also observed. The present volume contains the results of about 9200 observations, for the determination of the places of 3175 stars. These observations were made without assistance. The three Meridian Circle volumes include the results of complete observations, besides 3000 observations in one coordinate only. Acknowledgments are due to the Carnegie Institution of Washington, for supplying an assistant during two years of the period covered by this volume. 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.

Download or read book Agency written by William Gibson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “ONE OF THE MOST VISIONARY, ORIGINAL, AND QUIETLY INFLUENTIAL WRITERS CURRENTLY WORKING”* returns with a sharply imagined follow-up to the New York Times bestselling The Peripheral. William Gibson has trained his eye on the future for decades, ever since coining the term “cyberspace” and then popularizing it in his classic speculative novel Neuromancer in the early 1980s. Cory Doctorow raved that The Peripheral is “spectacular, a piece of trenchant, far-future speculation that features all the eyeball kicks of Neuromancer.” Now Gibson is back with Agency—a science fiction thriller heavily influenced by our most current events. Verity Jane, gifted app whisperer, takes a job as the beta tester for a new product: a digital assistant, accessed through a pair of ordinary-looking glasses. “Eunice,” the disarmingly human AI in the glasses, manifests a face, a fragmentary past, and a canny grasp of combat strategy. Realizing that her cryptic new employers don’t yet know how powerful and valuable Eunice is, Verity instinctively decides that it’s best they don’t. Meanwhile, a century ahead in London, in a different time line entirely, Wilf Netherton works amid plutocrats and plunderers, survivors of the slow and steady apocalypse known as the jackpot. His boss, the enigmatic Ainsley Lowbeer, can look into alternate pasts and nudge their ultimate directions. Verity and Eunice are her current project. Wilf can see what Verity and Eunice can’t: their own version of the jackpot, just around the corner, and the roles they both may play in it. *The Boston Globe