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...s|planet]] or moon.  The term is generally employed in [[../Astronomy|astronomy]] to denote one planet revolving about another; and hence satellites are so {{NSRW-cat|Astronomy}} ...

...student will do well to consult chapter vi. of Miss Clerke’s ''History of Astronomy.'' {{NSRW-cat|Astronomy}} ...

Stanford Jr. University he was appointed Non Resident Lecturer on Astronomy. mathematical astronomy. Never having access to an observatory himself ...

which is known from astronomy as "{{sc|Kepler}}'s equation". The question concerning the uniqueness of th ...

...luding number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and optics ...

===MR. REDDIE'S ASTRONOMY.=== ..., very simply explained. In endeavoring to understand the laws of physical astronomy as generally taught, I happened to entertain some doubt whether gravitating ...

...hographic method explained in <!-- added "in" --> Chapter 15, Navigational Astronomy. A maneuvering board might prove helpful in the graphical solution for eith ...agram on the plane of the celestial meridian (See Chapter 15, Navigational Astronomy). ...

...ne, it can at least be demonstrated easily from the principles of physical astronomy. Thus the following problem arises, which is worthy of attention both in it ...

...readers but little advanced in mathematics some of the truths of physical astronomy. The remainder were from notes of lectures which I have myself given upon t ...een-that is to say of a nature decidedly lazy and consequently ignorant of astronomy and physics-but of philosophers simply, Epicureans as respecting the fundam ...

...f facts to deserve the name of induction. In another work, his treatise on Astronomy,{{ref|121}} Sir John Herschel, after noting that a popular account can only ...d been done by mathematics; and, strange to say, he especially objected to astronomy being handed over to the mathematicians. Leverrier and Adams, calculating a ...

===ZETETIC ASTRONOMY.=== :Zetetic Astronomy: Earth not a globe. 1857 (Broadsheet). ...

do not confuse with a commercial astronomy Astronomy that zenith distance is simply 90° - observed altitude. ...

...are but in the alchemy of some new chemistry, or the astrology of some new astronomy. Perhaps it would be as well not to be too sure on the matter, until we hav ...shall quote entire. As the announcements are very ordinary {{pagenum|351}} astronomy, the reader will be able to detect, if detection be possible, what is the m ...

The astronomy of the Pythagoreans was their most notable contribution to scientific thoug ...geometry considers continued quantity so far as it is immovable, but that astronomy (<span title="hē sphairikē">{{Greek|ἡ σφαιρική}}</span>) contemplates conti ...

...se felt—i.e., perceptible now and then—has the character of the Irishman's astronomy: :Astronomy made plain; or only way the true perpendicular distance of the Sun, Moon, o ...

...ion, this is the most confident, and the sorest. {{pagenum|5}} A writer on astronomy said of Mr. Jellinger Symons,{{ref|18}} "Of course he convinced no one who ...d about in the streets in 1847: I quote the whole:] Important discovery in astronomy, communicated to the Astronomer Royal, December 21st, 1846. That the Sun re ...

...imitive Christianity'' appeared the following year. He wrote many works on astronomy and religion. ...Savilian professor of geometry at Oxford (1810-27) and later professor of astronomy and head of the Radcliffe Observatory. He wrote ''An historical Essay on fi ...

...elestial mechanics and which are today recognized and applied in practical astronomy are due to the circumstance that he undertook to treat anew that difficult ...ging to the region of abstract number theory, the latter forced upon us by astronomy and necessary to an understanding of the simplest fundamental phenomena of ...

...ion of a lunar caustic—a problem likely to become of great use in nautical astronomy." ...as far as it goes. Accordingly, we have plenty of discoverers who, even in astronomy, pronounce the learned in error because of mathematics. In France, beyond t ...

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