Astronomical Papers, Prepared for the use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
By: under the Direction of Simon Newcomb, ...
Edition: Volume 1
Series: Astronomical Papers, Prepared for the use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, vol. 1
Publisher: Bureau of Navigation, Navy Department
Published: 1882
Place of publication: Washington, DC, USA
Language: eng
Other titles: Astronomical Papers.
Notes: In item "astronomicalpap00newcgoog", pages 363-365 (Part 6, title page) are missing.

Item "astronomicalpap00newcgoog" digitized from the Radcliffe Library of the Oxford University.

"Part IV of this series of papers is identical with the catalogue of 1098, Standard Stars, of which the copies were issued in a bound form. This fact is mentioned to correct misapprehension among recipients of the publications respecting the completeness of their sets. prepared under the Volume I is completed with Part VI."
Table of contents: label: title
pagenum: n9
title: Title page: Astronomical Papers, ..., under the Direction of Simon Newcomb, ..., Volume I, ... 1882; title: Prefatory Note; title: Contents ... page v
pagenum: n13; title: Introduction (by SIMON NEWCOMB) ... page vii-xiv; label: 1
pagenum: n23
title: I. On the Recurrence of Solar Eclipses, with tables of Eclipses from B.C. 700 to A.D. 2300, by SIMON NEWCOMB (1879) ... 1; label: 2
pagenum: n87
title: II. A Transformation of HANSEN's Lunar Theory, compared with the Theory of DELAUNAY, by SIMON NEWCOMB, aided by JOHN MEIER ... 57; label: 3
pagenum: n139
title: III. Experimental Determination of the velocity of light made at the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, by ALBERT A. MICHELSON ... 109; label: 4
pagenum: n177
title: IV. Catalogue of 1098 Standard Clock and Zodiacal Stars, prepared under the direction of SIMON NEWCOMB ... 147; label: 5
pagenum: n347
title: V. On GAUSS's method of computing secular perturbations, with an application to the action of Venus on Mercury, by GEORGE W. HILL ... 315; label: 6
pagenum: n396
title: VI. Discussion of Observed Transits of Mercury, 1677-1881, by SIMON NEWCOMB ... 363 (363-364 missing); title: Last page ... 487
pagenum: n518