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But surely the chances of a similar accident happening again are astronomical.
This was still an astronomical method, but Bradley used observations of the aberration of light from stars.
These services include excellent products, reasonable prices, and astronomical shipping fees.
Finally, the translation of Ptolemy's Almagest furnished important astronomical material.
Maya astronomers observed the movements of the sun, moon, and planets, made astronomical calculations, and devised almanacs.
It was another Johannes, also a German, who in 1472 became the first person to print an astronomical almanac.
The Dobsonian design is the most popular type of altazimuth mounting used on astronomical telescopes.
Because of the astronomical position of Mercury, it is always close to the Sun.
Book III consists largely of tables of numbers, whose columns are headed by zodiacal and planetary symbols, suggesting astronomical data.
Reform was required because too many leap days are added with respect to the astronomical seasons on the Julian scheme.
It is spending astronomical amounts of money, alienating allies and further antagonizing opponents.
They used two sticks in the form of a cross, viewing astronomical objects through the right angle formed by the sticks.
Typical distances from the Sun are 10,000 astronomical units, and typical orbital periods are on the order of 1 million years.
Arab craftsmen produced complex astronomical instruments, astrolabes, which helped them plot the positions of the stars and tell the time of day.
He also wrote works on astronomical instruments, for example on constructing and using an astrolabe.
The construction of astronomical instruments such as the astrolabe was also a speciality of the Arabs.
Since most of the shuttle system was designed to be reusable, it was supposed to take the astronomical costs out of astronautics.
In that year he corrected the calendar to bring it into line with his accurate astronomical observations.
Neptune was the first to be detected as the result of an astronomical calculation rather than accidental observation.
The celestial globe is an astronomical instrument used to measure the stars and the nature of the universe.
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And yet such is the true character of the astronomical Sermons of Chalmers.
It will be worth while by way of illustration to point to the assistance given by horology to astronomical and nautical science.
It appears that in China there is no attempt to make the civil year or year of the calendar coincide with the astronomical year.
In the suburb of bilk there are the Floragarten and Volksgarten, the astronomical observatory and the harbour.
The civil day always commences at the midnight preceding this astronomical day.
The last of Galileo's great astronomical discoveries related to the libration of the moon.
In astronomical observations, for instance, they employ a system of telephotography.
Under the incessant slow variations of these astronomical, telluric, and geographical influences life has no rest.
We are, so to speak, an astronomical unit, and we affect each other for better or for worse.
We may remark that the commencement of the astronomical day commences twelve hours after the civil day.
Another very important function of the codices is the presentation of astronomical phenomena and calculations.
Though not the inventor, he was the first to construct a refracting telescope and apply it to astronomical research.
His astronomical investigations were principally of a photographical character.
Monty checked back in the astronomical handbook, and the photostated pages of the old almanac, then looked over his calculations.
He checked back in the astronomical handbook, and the photostated pages of the old almanac, and looked over his calculations.
That was one astronomical unit, equal to about ninety-three million miles, the distance from Earth to the sun.
Do all that you can to teach the signs of the zodiac, the days of the seasons, and all the doings of the astronomical year.
His astronomer, by name Sosigenes, did his best, but assumed the astronomical year to be 11 min.
The name of this star is Fomalhaut, and it is much used in astronomical measurements.
With astronomical observations or with existing triangulations, the gravimetric method can accomplish further results.
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