Author : Frederick Converse Beach
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265924693
Total Pages : 842 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (246 download)
Book Synopsis The Americana, 1912 by : Frederick Converse Beach
Download or read book The Americana, 1912 written by Frederick Converse Beach and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Americana, 1912: An Universal Reference Library Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., Of the World When the observations of these transits were worked up, it was found that they would not give so certain a result as was anticipated. No two observers seemed to a cc as to the exact moment at which Venus ad entered wholly upon the disc of the sun. The entrance was not seen in the sharp and precise way it should be seen, but seemed to be uncertain, through a dark haze forming on the two limbs at the moment when Venus was entering. The out come of the affair was that it was more than 60 years after the last transit before a result had been worked up from it which was sup posed to be quite satisfactory. This was done by Encke in 1822. The distance of the sun which he derived was, in round numbers, 95, miles. This distance appeared in all astronomical textbooks and was almost uni formly accepted for 30 years. 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.