American horological journal, devoted to practical horology (1869)
Miller, George B · New York, G. B. Miller · leaf 82
ipse, and E, the earth; if^now, we take B as thestarting-point of the re-volving star, movingtowards C, it must followthat the star will becontinuously receding from the earth; conse-quently, increasing thedistance, it will appearto take a longer periodfor the star to arrive atI), than for the time… … 102 AMERICAN HOROLOGICAL JOURNAL. ascertainins: the entire distance of both theprimary and its satellite. Thus the differencebetweeen the greatest and least distance ofthe satellite from the earth is just thediameter of the orbit, and the difference be-tween the observed times of the two…
Clocks and watches
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