The Gallery of Nature and Art; Or a Tour Through Creation and Science ...R.N. Rose, 1821 - Curiosities and wonders |
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... Hipparchus , marked the commencement of the spring , after which it described the other signs , Taurus , Gemini , & c . but the retrograde motions of the equi- noxes , changed the coincidence of the seasons ; nevertheless , ob- servers ...
... Hipparchus , marked the commencement of the spring , after which it described the other signs , Taurus , Gemini , & c . but the retrograde motions of the equi- noxes , changed the coincidence of the seasons ; nevertheless , ob- servers ...
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... Hipparchus to discover the precession of the equinoxes , and Ptolemy , from their observations of the planets , founded his theory of those bodies . The next astronomer which the school of Alexandria produced , was Aristarchus , of ...
... Hipparchus to discover the precession of the equinoxes , and Ptolemy , from their observations of the planets , founded his theory of those bodies . The next astronomer which the school of Alexandria produced , was Aristarchus , of ...
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... Hipparchus of Bithynia , for the great number and extent of his observations , by the important results he obtained , by com- paring them with those that had been formerly made by others ; and for the excellent method which he pursued ...
... Hipparchus of Bithynia , for the great number and extent of his observations , by the important results he obtained , by com- paring them with those that had been formerly made by others ; and for the excellent method which he pursued ...
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... Hipparchus in his error , and perhaps even led him into it . He was mistaken also in supposing circular the elliptic orbit of the sun , and that the real velocity of this body was constantly uniform . The contrary is now demonstrated by ...
... Hipparchus in his error , and perhaps even led him into it . He was mistaken also in supposing circular the elliptic orbit of the sun , and that the real velocity of this body was constantly uniform . The contrary is now demonstrated by ...
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... Hipparchus for the method of determining places on the earth by their latitude and longitude , for which he first employed the eclipses of the moon . Spherical trigonometry , also , owes its origin to Hipparchus , who applied it to the ...
... Hipparchus for the method of determining places on the earth by their latitude and longitude , for which he first employed the eclipses of the moon . Spherical trigonometry , also , owes its origin to Hipparchus , who applied it to the ...
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