When these were built, stores were removed to them and observatories fitted up for recording the various conditions of the atmosphere.
On the ice alongside various observatories were erected and scientific instruments placed to make complete records, and later, a row of comfortable kennels was made for the accommodation of the dogs.
So, too, they had observatoriesand knew something of the orbits of the stars.
One of the best observatories in the world was built by the generosity of James Lick, an infidel.
Some fine types of dials on a large scale exist in the observatories built by Jai Singh.
In modern observatories both types are used, each for the purpose for which it is best adapted.
In an ordinary telescope he is accustomed to find a tube with lenses of glass at either end, while the large telescopes that we see in our observatories are also in general constructed on the same principle.
At the present day, astronomers of the great national observatories are assiduously engaged in the determination of the places of the stars.
Hence observatories have, of late years, been established at Arequipa, Peru, and at other stations where the atmosphere is calm and little disturbed by currents.
But in the absence of a numerous class of men of science to encourage and aid each other, without observatories and without valuable instruments, little of importance could be expected in the higher walks of astronomical life.
Much, however, as we are indebted to our observatories for elevating our conceptions of the heavenly bodies, they present, even to the unaided sight, scenes of glory which words are too feeble to describe.
But in the dim observatories the watchers held their breath and peered at one another.
In the depths of the Peruvian mines, at the marts of the African slave-caravans, on the shores of the Spice Islands, in the observatories of China, they were to be found.
Distinguished scholars like Father Ricci impressed themselves upon even the contemptuous Chinese mandarins, established astronomical observatories and succeeded in gaining the favor of the Court.
As Borsippa possessed a university, it was natural that one of the three observatories should be established there.
Among the letters published by Professor Harper is an interesting one—unfortunately defaced and imperfect—which was sent to Nineveh from one of the observatories in Babylonia.
What are all the observatories of Greenwich, and Paris and Pulkowa, to such a rock-built citadel as the Great Pyramid?
As to the measurement of time, all who have visited astronomical observatories know the extreme and almost infinite pains taken to obtain an even temperature for clocks.
Restore in thought one of those Babylonian structures whose lofty ruins now serve as observatories for the explorer or passing traveller.
The Appendix, containing Reports on the Observatoriesand on the Public Museum, Public Park, and Gardens at Trevandrum, pp.
At Utrecht, Potsdam and Wilhelmshaven the magnetographs are frequently disturbed by seismic waves, whilst at many other European observatories such effects are absent or only barely appreciable.
Another form of disturbance to which magnetic needles are subjected is that which accompanies the passage of large earth-waves beneath certain observatories situated at great distances from earthquake origins.
The Kaiserliche Akademie der Wissenschaften of Vienna established earthquake observatories in Austria,[3] and the Central Observatorium of St Petersburg has carried out similar work in Russia.
In some cases magnetic observations have been wholly suspended, in others new observatories have been built on more remote sites.
Otherwise unaccountable disturbances in records from magnetographs, barographs and other instruments employed in observatories are frequently explained by reference to the traces yielded by seismometers.
What observatories could afford to acquire the instruments of this new pattern and get other funds for carrying out the work specified?
I am glad to say, occupying at the present moment so much of the attention, not only of the great Yerkes Observatory, but of many other observatories scattered over the globe.
The following is the original list, and in brackets are added the names of three other observatories which in 1900 undertook to fill the places of the defaulters.
It was ultimately found that eighteen observatories were able to obtain the apparatus and funds, though unfortunately three of the eighteen have since found it impossible to proceed.
It comprises the work of seventeen observatories (four of them in the southern hemisphere) with twenty-one different instruments, and by nine distinct methods of observation.
In the latitudes in which most of the great observatories of the world are situated, that part of the celestial sphere within 40 deg.
Up to the middle of the nineteenth century, the few observatories situated in the southern hemisphere were too ill-endowed to permit of their undertaking a complete census of this invisible region.
Report upon some of the magnetic observatories of Europe.
Thus was peace given to the scientists of the numerous observatories on the surface of the terrestrial globe.
And the observatories of the American Federation did not hesitate to do their best.
In this much-disputed question the observatories of Washington in the District of Columbia, and Cambridge in Massachusetts, found themselves opposed by those of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, and Ann Arbor in Michigan.
As ancient observatories were themselves the instruments of astronomical observation, Babur's wording is correct.
Those who were on duty at the observatories were disturbed, during the night, with shrill and melancholy sounds, issuing from the adjacent villages, which they took to be the lamentations of the women.
The Resolution's mast was landed, and the astronomical observatories erected on their former situation.
The observatories were carried ashore, and placed upon an elevated rock on one side of the cove, close to the Resolution.
The Observatories erected, and Carpenters set to work.
Greenwich the greatest of all observatories when Halley was nineteen), the frightful ravages of the Black Plague, the tyrannies of James II.
The Harvard, Lick, and Paris Observatories have published pretty complete photographic atlases of the moon, and the best negatives of these series show nearly everything that the eye can discern, except under unusual circumstances.
Extemporized observatories were established, watchmen were everywhere on the lookout, and bells were to be rung the minute the shower began.
Splendid observatories were built at Damascus and Bagdad, and fine instruments patterned after Greek models were continuously used in observing.
A vigorous attack on the problem of the evolution and structure of the stellar universe as a whole is now being conducted by cooperation of many observatories in both hemispheres.
Many government observatoriesare still at work cataloguing the stars.
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