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- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FUNDAMENTAL FORMULAE
- CHAPTER II THE USE OF SPHERICAL COORDINATES
- CHAPTER III THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH AND MAP MAKING
- CHAPTER IV THE CELESTIAL SPHERE
- CHAPTER V RIGHT ASCENSION AND DECLINATION; CELESTIAL LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
- CHAPTER VI ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION
- CHAPTER VII KEPLER'S AND NEWTON'S LAWS AND THEIR APPLICATION
- CHAPTER VIII PRECESSION AND NUTATION
- CHAPTER IX SIDEREAL TIME AND MEAN TIME
- CHAPTER X THE SUN'S APPARENT ANNUAL MOTION
- CHAPTER XI THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT
- CHAPTER XII THE GEOCENTRIC PARALLAX OF THE MOON
- CHAPTER XIII THE GEOCENTRIC PARALLAX OF THE SUN
- CHAPTER XIV ON THE TRANSIT OF A PLANET ACROSS THE SUN
- CHAPTER XV THE ANNUAL PARALLAX OF STARS
- CHAPTER XVI ECLIPSES OF THE MOON
- CHAPTER XVII ECLIPSES OF THE SUN
- CHAPTER XVIII OCCULTATIONS OF STARS BY THE MOON
- CHAPTER XIX PROBLEMS INVOLVING SUN OR MOON
- CHAPTER XX PLANETARY PHENOMENA
- CHAPTER XXI THE GENERALIZED INSTRUMENT
- CHAPTER XXII THE FUNDAMENTAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE OBSERVATORY
- INDEX AND GLOSSARY
INDEX AND GLOSSARY
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I FUNDAMENTAL FORMULAE
- CHAPTER II THE USE OF SPHERICAL COORDINATES
- CHAPTER III THE FIGURE OF THE EARTH AND MAP MAKING
- CHAPTER IV THE CELESTIAL SPHERE
- CHAPTER V RIGHT ASCENSION AND DECLINATION; CELESTIAL LATITUDE AND LONGITUDE
- CHAPTER VI ATMOSPHERIC REFRACTION
- CHAPTER VII KEPLER'S AND NEWTON'S LAWS AND THEIR APPLICATION
- CHAPTER VIII PRECESSION AND NUTATION
- CHAPTER IX SIDEREAL TIME AND MEAN TIME
- CHAPTER X THE SUN'S APPARENT ANNUAL MOTION
- CHAPTER XI THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT
- CHAPTER XII THE GEOCENTRIC PARALLAX OF THE MOON
- CHAPTER XIII THE GEOCENTRIC PARALLAX OF THE SUN
- CHAPTER XIV ON THE TRANSIT OF A PLANET ACROSS THE SUN
- CHAPTER XV THE ANNUAL PARALLAX OF STARS
- CHAPTER XVI ECLIPSES OF THE MOON
- CHAPTER XVII ECLIPSES OF THE SUN
- CHAPTER XVIII OCCULTATIONS OF STARS BY THE MOON
- CHAPTER XIX PROBLEMS INVOLVING SUN OR MOON
- CHAPTER XX PLANETARY PHENOMENA
- CHAPTER XXI THE GENERALIZED INSTRUMENT
- CHAPTER XXII THE FUNDAMENTAL INSTRUMENTS OF THE OBSERVATORY
- INDEX AND GLOSSARY
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- A Treatise on Spherical Astronomy , pp. 493 - 506Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013First published in: 1908