 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1870 - 650 pages
...this was in the year 1739. At last I recollected, that when I was with Squire Grant of Auchoynaney, in the year 1730, I had read, that on the 1st of January, 1690, the moon's ascending node was in the tenth minute of the first degree of Aries ; and that her nodes moved backward through the whole ecliptic... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Scotland - 1875 - 294 pages
...the stars by my above-mentioned thread, so as to delineate her path on my celestial map, in order to find the two opposite points of the ecliptic in which...place these intersecting points: this was in the year 1739At last I recollected, that when I was with Squire Grant of Auchoynaney, in the year 1730, 1 had... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 pages
...Stars by my above-mentioned Thread, so as to delineate her Path upon my Celestial Map, in order to find the two opposite points of the Ecliptic in which...Achoynaney, in the year 1730, I had read, that on the 1st January, 1690, the Moon's ascending Node was on the 10th minute of the 1st Degree of Aries ; and that... | |
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... my celestial map, in order to find the two opposite points of the ecliptic in which her orbit crosses it, I was altogether at a loss how and where in the ecliptic (in my scheme) to place these intersecting points : this was in the year 1739. At last,... 
