Excerpt from Heliometer Observations for Determination of Stellar Parallax Made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope This settled, I was on the point of leaving for Durban and Aden to carry out the longitude operations connecting these places with the Cape, when I was suddenly recalled to England on urgent private affairs. I made new arrangements for the longitude work, so that when I returned to the Cape on 1881, June 30, I was enabled to take up the programme of the Helio meter observations at an earlier date than ...
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Excerpt from Heliometer Observations for Determination of Stellar Parallax Made at the Royal Observatory, Cape of Good Hope This settled, I was on the point of leaving for Durban and Aden to carry out the longitude operations connecting these places with the Cape, when I was suddenly recalled to England on urgent private affairs. I made new arrangements for the longitude work, so that when I returned to the Cape on 1881, June 30, I was enabled to take up the programme of the Helio meter observations at an earlier date than I originally intended. Dr. Elkin occupied my house m my absence, and remained as my guest, and as a member of my' family circle until the completion of our programme. He sailed. From the Cape on 1883, May 16. His work from first to last was a labour of love. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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