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Scientific American, Vol. 72, No. 1 (1895) (1895)

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the zenith of a place a mile away. Tothe best gators of whom we know must have been aware that depression, the feed being positive in its operation. In the earth was round. This fact was certainly under- eye unaided by a telescope those two stars would look stood by the ancient Greeks and Egyptians… … sure of its correctness. But the practical thirty times. astronomer being able to determine his lat- The space occupied by the former bulky itude and longitude within fifty yards, the feed mechanism may now be used for am- itis at the present day. True, theydid not know that positions of the…

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