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Moreover, a favourable opposition of Mars gave the opportunity in 1862 for fresh observations, which, separately worked out by Stone and Winnecke, agreed with all the newer investigations in fixing the great unit at slightly over 91 million miles. In Newcomb's hands they gave 92-1/2 million.
The Nautical Almanac gave from 1870 the altered value of 8.95", for which Newcomb's result of 8.85", adopted in 1869 in the Berlin Ephemeris, was substituted some ten years later. In astronomical literature the change was initiated by Sir Edmund Beckett in the first edition of his Astronomy without Mathematics.
You know what to expect. But here you never know. The best of ship-masters can get tripped up off the Plate." "'As I've found out . . . Beyond a doubt," Mr. Pike hummed from Newcomb's Celeste, as he went down the ladder. The sunsets grow more bizarre and spectacular off this coast of the Argentine.
"The Blanchard who shot down the bank detective in Newcomb's room when the rest of the bank was listening to a German band playing in the side street, a band hired for the occasion." "When was that?" demanded the woman. "That was last October," he answered with a sing-song weariness suggestive of impatience at such supererogative explanations.
If the earth's orbit have a mean radius, as found by him, of 92,874,000 miles, then, he calculated, the aberration of light Newcomb's measures of its velocity being supposed exact amounts to 20.467". This figure can need very slight correction. Professor Harkness surveyed in 1891, from an eclectic point of view, the general situation as regarded the sun's parallax.
But it is far from being so; it yields sensibly to every strain put upon it; and this yielding tends to protract the time of circulation of the displaced pole. The length of its period, then, serves as a kind of measure of the plasticity of the globe; which, according to Newcomb's and S. S. Hough's independent calculations, seems to be a little less than that of steel.
Roger Miller, whose death caused such universal lamentation in the city of London, was for many years a wanderer from God, and was at length converted by means of a tract, given him by the "way-side," by an old and decrepit woman. "NEWCOMB'S MANUAL" Is a carefully prepared little volume, containing Scripture questions, designed for the use of Maternal Associations at their Quarterly Meetings.
"Even if it were nothing more than to follow Thoph Newcomb's example and sell fish." "Yes," laughingly, "even that. I WAS impertinent, wasn't I! I don't wonder you were offended." "I needed the impertinence, I guess. But frankly, Miss Colton, I can't see why you should be glad because I have gone to work. I can't see what difference my working or idling can possibly make to you."
But all earlier efforts of the kind were thrown into the shade by Professor Newcomb's arduous operations at Washington in 1880-1882. The scale upon which they were conducted was in itself impressive.
The other two looked at Warner and saw his left eyelid droop slightly. A faint twinkle appeared in either eye and then they laughed. "I reckon that Dick shoots high in the air," said the sergeant. Dick, after a pleasant hour with his friends, went back to Colonel Newcomb's quarters, where he spent the entire evening writing despatches at dictation.
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