 | Joseph Denison - 1846 - 106 pagine
...(altogether against the nature of light) to exceed those of the fixed stars, and that by about 4 or 5 minutes in the horizon, did thereby augment the horizontal...the like number of minutes; that is, by about the twelfth or fifteenth part of the whole parallax. Correct this error, and the distance will become 60... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 pagine
...refractions of the sun and moon (altogether against the nature of light) to exceed those of the fixed stars, and that by about four or five minutes in the horizon,...the like number of minutes; that is, by about the I2th or I5th part of the whole parallax. Correct this error, and the distance will become 60 or 61... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 pagine
...refractions of the sun and moon (altogether against the nature of light) to exceed those of the fixed stars, and that by about four or five minutes in the horizon,...the like number of minutes; that is, by about the I2th or I5th part of the whole parallax. Correct this error, and the distance will become 60 or 6 1... | |
 | Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen - 2004 - 230 pagine
...refradtions of the Sun and Moon (altogether againft the nature of light) to exceed thofe of the fixed Stars, and that by about four or five minutes in the horizon,...parallax of the Moon, by about the like number of minutes 5 that is, by about the 1 2th or i5th part of the whole parallax, Corred this errour, and the diftance... | |
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But Tycho, and all that follow his tables of refraction, making the refractions of the sun and moon (altogether against the nature of light) to exceed those of the fixed stars, and that by about four or five minutes in the horizon, did thereby augment... 