An edition of Astronomical Papers, Prepared for the use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
(1882)
Astronomical Papers, Prepared for the use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
Volume 1
by Simon Newcomb, United States Naval Observatory Nautical..., and United States, Navy Dept., Bureau of Nav...
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Table of Contents
title. Title page: Astronomical Papers, ..., under the Direction of Simon Newcomb, ..., Volume I, ... 1882
Prefatory Note
Contents ... page v
Introduction (by SIMON NEWCOMB) ... page vii-xiv
1. I. On the Recurrence of Solar Eclipses, with tables of Eclipses from B.C. 700 to A.D. 2300, by SIMON NEWCOMB (1879) ... 1
2. II. A Transformation of HANSEN's Lunar Theory, compared with the Theory of DELAUNAY, by SIMON NEWCOMB, aided by JOHN MEIER ... 57
3. III. Experimental Determination of the velocity of light made at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, by ALBERT A. MICHELSON ... 109
4. IV. Catalogue of 1098 Standard Clock and Zodiacal Stars, prepared under the direction of SIMON NEWCOMB ... 147
5. V. On GAUSS's method of computing secular perturbations, with an application to the action of Venus on Mercury, by GEORGE W. HILL ... 315
6. VI. Discussion of Observed Transits of Mercury, 1677-1881, by SIMON NEWCOMB ... 363 (363-364 missing)
Last page ... 487
Edition Notes
In item "astronomicalpap00newcgoog", pages 363-365 (Part 6, title page) are missing.
Item "astronomicalpap00newcgoog" digitized from the Radcliffe Library of the Oxford University.
"Part IV of this series of papers is identical with the catalogue of 1098, Standard Stars, of which the copies were issued in a bound form. This fact is mentioned to correct misapprehension among recipients of the publications respecting the completeness of their sets. prepared under the Volume I is completed with Part VI."
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