Problems in time and space : a collection of essays relating to the earth, physically and astronomically, and cognate matters / by F.A. Black.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Gall and Inglis, [1909]Edition: [1st edition]Description: xx, 362 pages : frontispiece, plates, portraits, diagrams ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
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Contents:
How the distance and size of the sun were measured -- A simple means of ascertaining the day of the week of any given date in the Christian era -- Measuring the earth -- Solar and sidereal time -- The reform of the calendar -- The magnetism of the earth -- The movements of the sun and of the earth in space -- Logarithms and their inventor -- Gravitation the chief cause of the general oceanic circulation -- Twilight and dawn -- Appendix.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QB51 .B53 1909 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000047460

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

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A series of essys on the physical measurment of time and space

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