Popular astronomy : a concise elementary treatise on the sun, planets, satellites and comets (1865)
Mitchel, O. M. (Ormsby MacKnight), 1809-1862 · New York : Oakley & Mason · leaf 41
ers are not located at the extremitiesof tlie same diameter of the earth. These and othermatters afiecting the result being carefully taken intoaccount, we have obtained, for the value of the suns hori-zontal parallax, when at his mean distance from theearth, 8.6, or eight and six-tenths seconds of… … THE suns limb » tg -^■l.^ _ tJ U I ^ M ^W 1^ *^ ! ?l. L,„HI
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