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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 58

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HANSEN ( I 795-1874) (Peter Andreas Hansen itas one of the greatest mathematicalastronomers of the \qtli century. His tables of Sun and Moon,although now nearly a half century old, are still the basis of com-putation by which all timepieces are regulated, a?id the ships ofall nations guided. Twice… … -1S7: (Charles Eugene Delaunay was perhaps the greatest of modemFrench geometers. He succeeded Arago and Le Yerrier asdirector of the Paris Observatory. Delaunays masterpiece entitled ■La Thcorie du MouvemetU de la Lioie is published in twoquarto volumes of the Met/wires de IAcademic des Sciences…

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