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Astronomy for amateurs (1904)

Flammarion, Camille, 1842-1925, Welby, Frances A. (Frances Alice) tr · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 308

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he circus is full a person placed atthe center will see each spectator occupying an angleof I degree. The angle does not alter with the dis-tance, and whether it be measured at i meter, 10meters, 100 kilometers, or in the infinite spaces ofHeaven, it is always the same angle. Whether adegree be… … ASTRONOMY FOR AMATEURS minutes has been given, and each minute into 60 partsor seconds. Written short, the degree is indicated bya Httle zero (°) placed above the figure; the minute byan apostrophe (0, and the second by two (). Theseminutes and seconds of arc have no relation Wixh thesame terms as…

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