American Quarterly Review, Volume 3Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1828 |
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... astronomers ; and it was not received nor appreciated until it was demonstrated by Newton . While Kepler was thus correcting and completing the system of Copernicus , rendering it fit to form the basis of the future cal- culations of ...
... astronomers ; and it was not received nor appreciated until it was demonstrated by Newton . While Kepler was thus correcting and completing the system of Copernicus , rendering it fit to form the basis of the future cal- culations of ...
Page 304
... astronomers ; Hipparchus and Kepler are alone to be com- pared with him , in the importance of the steps they made in the practice of this science . It is not sufficient to satisfy our curiosity , that we know the magnitude of the earth ...
... astronomers ; Hipparchus and Kepler are alone to be com- pared with him , in the importance of the steps they made in the practice of this science . It is not sufficient to satisfy our curiosity , that we know the magnitude of the earth ...
Page 307
... Astronomer Royal , also calculated the parallax of the sun , as did De Sejour , in France . Although both these astronomers agreed upon 8.88 " , that quantity is less near the truth than the determination of the American philosophers ...
... Astronomer Royal , also calculated the parallax of the sun , as did De Sejour , in France . Although both these astronomers agreed upon 8.88 " , that quantity is less near the truth than the determination of the American philosophers ...
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