Abridgement Of The Nautical Almanac For 1860

Author : United States Naval Observatory
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266955160
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, for the Year 1860 (Classic Reprint) written by United States Naval Observatory and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, for the Year 1860 The preparation of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac was begun in the latter part of the year 1849, in accordance with an act of Congress, approved on the 3d of March of that year. An account of this preparation, its details, the values of the constants adopted, and the means employed in various parts of the work to secure additional accu racy, or greater convenience, will be found in the Preface and Appendix of the first. Volume, for the year 1855. The form and arrangement of the Ephemeris, and the plan for prosecuting the work, then devised and adopted by Lieut. Charles Henry Davis, the Superintendent, with the. Co-operation of Prof. Benjamin Peirce, have been retained, with slight modification, in the succeeding volumes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.