Problems in time and space
Subtitle: a collection of essays relating to the earth, physically and astronomically, and cognate matters
By: by F.A. Black ...
Publisher: Gall & Inglis
Published: 1910
Place of publication: London [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Astronomy.; Calendar.; Logarithms.
Table of contents: value: How the distance and size of the sun were measured.; value: A simple means of ascertaining the day of the week of any given date in the Christian era.; value: Measuring the earth.; value: Solar and sidereal time.; value: The reform of the calendar.; value: The magnetism of the earth.; value: The movements of the sun and of the earth in space.; value: Logarithms and their inventor.; value: Gravitation the chief cause of the general oceanic circulation.; value: Twilight and dawn.; value: Appendix.