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IX. Comparison of the North Polar Distances of Thirty-eight Principal Fixed Stars, on the 1st of January 1800, as determined by Observations made at Greenwich, Armagh, Palermo, Westbury, Dublin, and Blackheath
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2013
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By comparing the longitudes and latitudes of the fixed stars, as computed from their right ascensions, and north polar distances, determined by observations made at distant periods, Astronomers have been enabled to ascertain, with the utmost accuracy, the precession of the equinoxes. The great accuracy, however, which has lately been introduced into the construction of astronomical instruments, and the more general cultivation of Practical Astronomy, will hereafter be the means of ascertaining the minute changes in the places of the fixed stars, which have been denominated their proper motion, and which, probably, arise from a motion of the solar system in absolute space.
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- Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , 1815 , pp. 279 - 283
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