Address ... on the Presentation of the Gold Medal to Professor Hansen, for His Lunar Tables1860 |
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accuracy action of Venus admiration analytical theory astro Astronomer Royal award Board of Longitude brilliant discoveries Burckhardt Burg Carlini century Clairaut coefficients commencement comparison complete computation Council D'Alembert Damoiseau deducing differential equation duty elliptic elements employed enormous labour epoch of mean Euler excentricity expressing finding the longitude fixed stars Gentlemen geometers Hansen independent variable inequalities Jupiter and Saturn longitude at sea longitude in terms Lunar Distances lunar motions lunar orbit Lunar Tables lunar theory mathematicians Mayer mean longitude mean motion mean quantities Medal Memoir ment method moon moon's Nautical Almanac necessary Newtonian theory nomers Observatory obtains the true parallax perfect perturbations physical astronomers Plana plane of reference practical astronomer present prize Professor Hansen's published purposes of navigation radius vector reduced remarkable researches reversion of series Sir John Lubbock solar successive approximations sun and moon Tables are based terms of mean tion true anomalies true longitude values