Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 433
rs and Telescopes upon an explanation of the method of using the chro-nometer at sea. That will be found exemplified to the fullest detail in the Am-erican Practical Navi-gator of Nathaniel Bow-ditch, whose fame rests-also upon his admirabletranslation of the Meca-nique Celeste of La Place(page… … bowditch (1773-1838) The observatories amply illustrated in the preced-ing chapters embody many excellent features, alsosome constructive faults. Astronomers a half centuryand more in the past were accustomed to build theirobservatories high up from the ground, a constructionfar from desirable and…
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