Improved nautical almanac, or True navigator, astronomically, mathematically, and mechanically arranged (1859)
Colby, Hall · New York : The author · leaf 13
tainly go very far toward establishing their correctness—then it will settle one ofthe most profound principles in nature, and your discovery will constitute one of the mostimportant made in Astronomy for the last three thousand years.Wishing you all success due to your long and indefatigable… … SELECTED MATTER FROM DISTINGmSHED AUTHORS, AS AN |ntr0krt}0ii to l^stroMmj anir §!aMgatkii. The term Asteohomt, like most terms of science, is derived from the an-cient Greek language. Astronomia, astronomy, is compounded of astron, astar or constellation, and nomos, a law, the law of the stars. It…
