Astronomy in a nutshell, the chief facts and principles explained in popular language for the general reader and for schools (1912)
Serviss, Garrett Putman, 1851-1929, Rouben Mamoulian Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York, London, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 190
nd the appearance of breaking up and re-shaping into smallermasses which some of the rings present. Parallax 141 requires to make one complete circuit ofits orbit, we can, by simple proportion,calculate, from the time that it takes to passfrom v to v1, the angular distance betweenthe lines A S and… … Fig. 1 j. Parallax of the Sun from Transit of Venus.(For description see text.; A and B, we have the means of determiningthe length of all the other lines in the triangle,and hence the distance of the sun. Thisprocess is known as Delisles method.There is another method, called Halleys,but in a…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-311-203.webp)
