Ephemeris of the periodical Comet for its Return in 1828, computed with the consideration of a resisting Medium.
The third class of data in the ephemeris comprises phenomena to be predicted and observed.
Among them is the Portuguese Astronomical Ephemerisfor the meridian of the University of Coimbra, prepared for Portuguese navigators.
As a consequence of the several difficulties and drawbacks, when the computation of our ephemeris was started, in the year 1849, there were no tables which could be regarded as really satisfactory in use.
Accordingly, the American Ephemeris has always been divided into two parts: the first for the use of navigators, referred to the meridian of Greenwich, the second for that of astronomers, referred to the meridian of Washington.
Another part of the ephemeris gives the position of the heavenly bodies, not at equidistant intervals, but at transit over some meridian.
All the matter is given by months, as in the solar and lunar ephemerisof our own and the British Almanac.
The equation of time and the sidereal time of mean noon complete the ephemeris proper.
When our ephemeris was first commenced, the corrections applied to existing tables rendered it more accurate than any other.
The issue of the Nautical Ephemeris was intrusted to Dr.
As it is the oldest, so, in respect at least to number of pages, it is the largest ephemeris of the present time.
In one direction, however, our ephemeris will hereafter be far ahead of all others.
Since taking charge of the American Ephemeris I have endeavored to ascertain what nautical almanacs are actually used by the principal maritime nations of Europe.
An astrological Ephemeris of the planets' motions is employed for this purpose (see Sect.
It is sufficient for him that he has the place of the Moon calculated for him in the ephemeris reduced from the Nautical or other official Almanac.
The Sun is directed after birth by its motion in the zodiac, which can be found in the Ephemeris for the year of birth, and the aspects it forms to the planets in the horoscope and in the daily progress should be tabulated.
The only means of effecting the calculation, therefore, is by reference to the ephemeris for the year of birth.
To find the time of the Sun's return to its own place in the zodiac is, of course, a simple matter of proportion from the ephemeris for the current year.
Take in hand, then, the Ephemeris for the year of your birth and read this chapter with it in view.
First, then, erect the figure of birth, taking care to use the Ephemeris of the year of birth, and also the correct Table of Houses for the latitude of the place of birth.
This is effected by comparing the radical or birthplace of the Sun with the longitude of the Sun in the Ephemeris on the anniversary day, which will give the increment more or less required to be equated.
The first appropriation for an American ephemeris and nautical almanac was made by Congress in 1849.
He will find the foreign ephemerides using uniform data worked out in the office of the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac" at Washington for the years beginning with 1901.
The astronomical ephemeris is the last practical outcome of their productive genius.
From the resulting elements of the orbit the positions of the body from day to day may be computed and tabulated in an ephemeris for the use of observers.
The name Chrisoganus is evidently a reflection of Harriot's Ephemeris Chrisometra, a MS.
Different views with regard to some of these symbols are expressed by Lidzbarski, Ephemeris fur semitische Epigraphik, ii.
Hübner and Haverfield in the periodical Ephemeris epigraphica; see also Hübner, Inscript.
The chief work of these men indicates the cold precise measuring of points of light in the heavens, the determination of orbits, elements and ephemeris of heavenly bodies, the determination of solar parallax, etc.
Lucius Septimius brought out Dictys Cretensis Ephemeris belli Trojani, which professed to be a Latin translation of the Greek version.
Possibly the Latin Ephemeriswas the work of Septimius himself.
Ephemeris navalis, addressed to Pompey before his departure for Spain about B.
Thomas Smith, in his Vitæ Illustrium, gives extracts from a so-called Ephemerisof Sir Peter Young, but which Sir Peter compiled during the latter years of his life.
This Ephemeris of Sir Peter Young may be worth the publishing if it can be found: can any of your readers say whether it is among Smith's or Hearne's MSS.
Zadkiel's and Raphael's are both good; the following figure is worked after the Ephemeris of the latter.
When a planet is Retrograde (shown in theEphemeris thus, R.
These aspects can all be judged from theEphemeris of the year of birth.
Those who, after all, may not care to consult the ephemeris in order to find the planets, may be able to locate them, simply from a knowledge of their situation among the constellations.
It posits the all-comprehensiveness of mind and the non-existence of matter.
In addition to this, teaching is the basis of all other methods.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ephemeris" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
