Brocklesby, John, 1811-1889. [from old catalog] · New York, Sheldon and company · leaf 251
ence betweenthe actual and predicted times of an eclipse, was owingto the circumstance that the light from the satellite had totravel farther in coming to the earth, when the planet wasin conjunction than when in opposition, and it was there-fore inferred that light passed through the space of In… … VELOCITY OF LIGHT. 184,000,000 miles in 16m. 26.6s., or nearly 186,500mites per second.1 This conclusion has been established,for two other independent modes of computing the velocityof light have since been discovered, both of which givesubstantially the same result as is afforded by the first.…
Astronomy
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