Measures of the velocity of light
Subtitle: made under direction of the Secretary of the Navy during the years 1880-'82
By: by Simon Newcomb
Series: Astronomical papers prepared for the use of the American ephemeris and nautical almanac -- v. 2, pt. 3
Publisher: Bureau of Equipment, Navy Dept.
Published: 1891
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Light; Speed
Notes: Bound with Newcomb, S. Formulae and tables for expressing corrections to the geocentric place of a planet in terms of symbolic corrections to the elements of the orbits of the Earth and planet [Washington, 1891], Safford, T.H. Investigation of corrections to the Greenwich planetary observations, from 1762 to 1830. [Washington, 1891], Michelson, A.A. Supplementary measures of the velocities of white and colored light in air, water, and carbon disulphide. [Washington, 1891], Newcomb, S. Discussion of observations of the transits of Venus in 1761 and 1769. [Washington, 1891] and Newcomb, S. Discussion of the North polar distances observed with the Greenwich and Washington transit circles with determinations of the constant of nutation. [Washington, 1891]