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: title: How the distance and size of the sun were measured.; title: A simple means of ascertaining the day of the week of any given date in the Christian era.; title: Measuring the earth.; title: Solar and sidereal time.; title: The reform of the calendar.; title: The magnetism of the earth.; title: The movements of the sun and of the earth in space.; title: Logarithms and their inventor.; title: Gravitation the chief cause of the general oceanic circulation.; title: Twilight and dawn.; title: Appendix.