 ... conclusion upon this head ; and it seems, therefore, demonstrated, that the amount of such parallax, even for the nearest fixed star which has hitherto been examined with the requisite attention, remains still mixed up with, and concealed among, the...  Is the Copernican System of Astronomy True?by W. S. Cassedy - 1888 - 212 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...fixed star which has hitherto been examined with the requisite attention, remains still mixed up with, and concealed among, the errors incidental to all...the quantity in question amount to a single second (ie did the radius of the earth's orbit subtend at the nearest fixed star that minute angle) it could... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...fixed star which has hitherto been examined with the requisite attention, remains still mixed up with, and concealed among, the errors incidental to all...the quantity in question amount to a single second (te did the radius of the earth's orbit subtend at the nearest fixed star that minute angle) it could... | |
 | John Farrar - Astronomy - 1834 - 504 pages
...fixed star which has hitherto been examined with the requisite attention, remains still mixed up with, and concealed among, the errors incidental to all...have escaped detection and universal recognition. 556. Radius is to the sine of 1", in round numbers, as 200000 to 1. In this proportion, then, at least,... | |
 | 1834 - 596 pages
...fixed st«r which has hitherto been examined with the requisite attention, remains still mixed up with, and concealed among:, the errors incidental to all...the quantity in question amount to a single second, (i. *. did the radius of the earth's orbit subtend at the nearest fixed star that minute angle,) it... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1836 - 430 pages
...still mixed up with, and concealed among, the errors incidental to all astronomical demonstrations. Now, such is the nicety to which these have been carried,...have escaped detection and universal recognition." Hence, by a simple mathematical process, he is led to the conclusion, that the distance of the stars... | |
 | Henry Duncan - God - 1839 - 422 pages
...still mixed up with, and concealed among, the errors incidental to all astronomical demonstrations. Now, such is the nicety to which these have been carried,...earth's orbit subtend, at the nearest fixed star, that i. 11 vii. minute angle,) it could not possibly have escaped detection and universal recognition."... | |
 | Henry Duncan - Natural theology - 1847 - 430 pages
...still mixed up with, and concealed among, the errors incidental to all astronomical demonstrations. Now, such is the nicety to which these have been carried,...earth's orbit subtend, at the nearest fixed star, that i. 11 vii. minute angle,) it could not possibly have escaped detection and universal recognition."... | |
 | R. Mackley Browne - Earth - 1868 - 228 pages
...fixed star, which has hitherto been examined with the requisite attention, remains still mixed up with and concealed among the errors incidental to all astronomical...the quantity in question amount to a single second (ie, did the radius of the earth's orbit subtend at the nearest fixed star that minute angle) it could... | |
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