Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1901)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911 · Boston, Little, Brown · leaf 81
nyresults were obtained by calculation from the observa-tions of the transits in those years ; but for a long timeit was agreed among astronomers that the value of theSuns parallax obtained by Encke in 1835, whichamounted to 8.5 7, was the best. More recentlymany determinations, made by observing… … Edmund Halley (1656-1742) The Sun 5 i that the Suns parallax is greater by at least o.2than Enckes value. Moreover, Mr E. J. Stone,late of Oxford, pointed out that Enckes discussionwas affected by erroneous interpretations of some ofthe observations, and that, when these are rightlyexplained, they…
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