 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1866 - 618 pàgines
...light to be reconciled with the old value of aberration ? I have said that aberration establishes only the ratio between the velocity of light and the velocity of the earth. If this ratio cannot be tampered with, and if one term of it (the velocity VOL. VI. 13 of light) must... | |
 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1866 - 588 pàgines
...to the true place, or the constant of aberration. This, when known as an observed fact, establishes the ratio between the velocity of light and the velocity of the earth, and enables the astronomer to assign the value of the one with all the accuracy which pertains to his... | |
 | 1864 - 382 pàgines
...reconciled with the old value of aberration ? It should be stated that aberration establishes only the ratio between the velocity of light and the velocity of the earth; but this ratio being established, the astronomer is enabled to assign the value of the ono with all... | |
 | Royal Society of Tasmania - 1864 - 494 pàgines
...to the true place, or the constant of aberration. This, when known as an observed fact, establishes the ratio between the velocity of light and the velocity of the earth, and enables the astronomer to assign the value of the one with all the accuracy which pertains to his... | |
 | 1865 - 372 pàgines
...reconciled with the old value of aberration ? It should be stated that aberration establishes only the ratio between the velocity of light and the velocity of the earth; but this ratio being established, the astronomer is enabled to assign the value of the one with all... | |
 | 1867 - 378 pàgines
...reconciled with the old value of aberration ? It should be stated that aberration establishes only the ratio between the velocity of light and the velocity of the earth; but this ratio being established, the astronomer is enabled .to assign the value of the one with all... | |
 | 1874 - 802 pàgines
...or an interplanetary space was a match for the enormous velocity of light. And yet one phj'sicist, by using a distance of less than six miles, and another,...given to the astronomer. As soon at it appeared that Foncault's estimate of the velocity of light fell short of the astronomical valuation by about three... | |
 | 1875 - 800 pàgines
...given for the work or the discovery which, in the opinion of the five academies of the Institute, has conferred the greatest honor and service upon the...distance of the sun given to the astronomer. As soon as it appeared that Foucault's estimate of the velocity of light fell short of the astronomical valuation... | |
 | 1900 - 706 pàgines
...SOLAR PARALLAX SOLDER 3 the velocity of light. The phenomena of aberration show that there is a certain ratio between the velocity of light and the velocity of the earth in its orbit. This ratio is such that the velocity of light is a little more than 10,000 times that... | |
 | Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar - 1910 - 610 pàgines
...these is the measurement of the velocity of light. The phenomena of aberration show that there is a ratio between the velocity of light and the velocity of the earth in its orbit. This ratio is such that the velocity of light is a little more than 10,000 times that... | |
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And yet one physicist, by using a distance of less than six miles, and another, without going outside of his laboratory, have discovered what astronomers had searched heaven and earth to find out. By these capital experiments the science of optics has... 
