In his opinion, the two men had parted from each other within a hundred yards from the Observatory walls.
One portion of the place containing some fine buildings, and a large church with a cupola, as seen from the picket-house, put one in mind of the view of Greenwich from the Park Observatory through a diminishing glass.
General Pelissier and his Staff went up to the French Observatory on the right.
ANN ARBOR (10), a city of Michigan, on the Huron, with an observatory and a flourishing university.
Two volumes of the Publications of the Astronomical Observatory, dealing with the spectroscopic investigations for which the Observatory is now particularly well equipped, have also appeared.
Klotz, '72e, of theObservatory of the Dominion of Canada, Monroe B.
The Observatory has grown rapidly since its establishment by Dr.
Professor Hussey has also made a number of reports in Spanish of his work in the observatory at the South American University of La Plata.
These came through the establishment of the Astronomical Observatory and the Chemical Laboratory.
For instance, from every single trench which also contains an artilleryobservatory the exact distance is recorded to every other trench, to every house, hillock, tree, and shrub behind which the enemy might advance.
All trenches, communication traverses, and observatory dugouts have received names which are printed on shingles affixed to the trenches on little upright posts.
Came to see me Mr. Flamsted, the famous astronomer, from his Observatoryat Greenwich, to draw the meridian from my pendule, etc.
I went to the Observatory at Greenwich, where Mr. Flamsted took his observations of the eclipse of the sun, now almost three parts obscured.
Dined with me Mr. Flamsted, the learned astrologer and mathematician, whom his Majesty had established in the new Observatory in Greenwich Park, furnished with the choicest instruments.
Their attack was directed to the part of the line from the southern end of Sanctuary Wood to Mount Gorst, about a mile, which included Armagh Wood, Observatory Hill, and Mount Gorst itself.
There was a Pioneer battalion along the road out to Observatory Ridge, which was a German target.
The cavalry in reserve below Observatory Hill stood to their horses, staring up at a German airplane which came overhead, careless of our "Archies.
I was in the village below Observatory Ridge on the morning of April 11th when cavalry was massed on that ground, waiting for orders to go into action.
The authorities at the Washington Observatorywere appealed to.
Before describing what Greenwich observatory is, it would be better perhaps to state first what it is not.
About the year 1847 Mr. Lerebours offered to Greenwich observatory the largest refracting telescope which had ever been constructed.
It has therefore been called the Mother clock, because it animates in the Observatory eight of its daughters.
One of his principal duties is to preserve for Greenwich observatory that character which the founder himself wished to impress upon it.
In the neighborhood of the observatory I took lodgings.
He took the chair,--in that pretty observatory parlor, which Polly had made so bright with smilax and ivy.
To the church where worshipped the family which lived in the observatory buildings I repaired; after two Sundays I established acquaintance with John Donald, the head of this family.
There is an observatory and cupola in the center of the roof, from whence may be obtained an extensive view of the surrounding country.
Illustration: 9379] E descended from the observatory at Valley Forge at one o'clock, and departed for the banks of the Brandywine by way of the Paoli * and West Chester.
Not far southward of Rogers's observatory was a redoubt, and near it was Knox's artillery.
Leverrier's Annals of the Observatory of Paris, vol.
His fall, his cry, would bring the Emperor down from his observatory and he knew that he would not leave his bleeding favorite uncared for and untended he could count upon that.
Franz von Paula Triesnecker made a series of measurements at the observatory of Vienna which has been reduced by Dr Wilhelm Schur of Strasburg (Nova Acta der Ksl.
Among the other university institutions are the academic hospital, the maternity hospital, the physiological institution, the chemical laboratory, the zoological museum, the botanical garden and the observatory on the Konigsstuhl.
In the fine example of this instrument at the Cape Observatory the movable negative lenses consist of segments of the shape gach and acfe (fig.
Repsolds on these plans for Gottingen, Bamberg, Leipzig and the Kuffner Observatory (near Vienna), and all of them have made important contributions to astronomy of precision.
The establishment of an Astronomical Observatory was recommended in his first message to Congress, as President of the United States; but the proposition fell on a political soil glowing with a red heat, enkindled by disappointed ambition.
Why astronomical science should be the object to which the income of this fund should be first applied he thus proceeds to set forth: "The express object of an observatory is the increase of knowledge by new discovery.
In specifying the objects to which it should be applied, that of the establishment of an Astronomical Observatorywas not omitted.
Passing upstairs, and looking slightly at the various rooms, which are all well panelled, but which do not require particular notice, we reached the little observatory shown in the engraving.
The forward watch-tower observatorywas here; officers' cabins; Captain Carter's navigating rooms and Dr.
I dragged the struggling Johnson there, with the amazed watcher looking down from the observatory window at our lunging, starlit forms.
I was headed back for the chart-room when from the observatory came the lookout's voice.
Dad is locked in the observatory with Professor Nachbaren and three or four other men and the servants--well, they all are so terrified that it simply alarms me to have them around.
The bulge of the dome enclosed us; it rounded like a great observatory window some twenty feet above the ceiling of this little metal cubby-hole.
At the far end of the chamber there was a staircase, and Dirk was among those who knew that it led up to the great observatory in which Fragoni and certain of his scientific associates spent so much of their time at night.
In the old days, before electrical instruments were invented, astronomers used to time the passage of a star across the meridian of their observatory by means of the eye-and-ear method.
The legs of the forward look-out still poked grotesquely up from the wreckage of the observatory tower where it lay smashed down against the roof of the chart-room.
Coast and Geodetic Survey's observatory at Cheltenham the effect of the Washington electric trams has been detected by highly sensitive magnetographs, though the nearest point of the line is 12 m.
Germany attached a seismological observatory to its university at Strassburg, whilst provision has been made for a professorship of Earth Physics (Geophysik) at Goettingen.
With a good unifilar magnetometer, at a fixed observatory distant from the magnetic poles, having a fixed mark of known azimuth, the observational uncertainty in a single observation should not exceed 0'.
Perhaps the most complete observations extant as to the declination phenomena near a turning point relate to Kolaba observatory at Bombay; they were given originally by N.
It has been customary for many years to collect and publish these results in the annual report of the Kew Observatory (Observatory Department of the National Physical Laboratory).
The yearly publication of the Batavia observatory gives corresponding results for that station, and Th.
In later years the International Magnetic Committee requested the authorities of each observatory to arrange the days of each month in three groups representing the quiet, the moderately disturbed and the highly disturbed.
In the table, so far as is known, the local mean time of the observatory has been employed.
The 15 inch refractor belonging to the Harvard College Observatory has also been employed in various experiments with a slit spectroscope, and is again being used as described below.
A wooden observatorywas constructed about 20 feet square.
With a great love for science he had established a small observatory on a high hill at a considerable distance from the mission buildings.
Illustration: The Observatory at the Salesian Colony.
From the observatoryhill an uncommon sight was before us.
The observatory was situated at an elevation of 8,060 ft.
On the hill where the observatory was situated two circular volcanic vents were to be seen.
I visited the astronomical observatory of Harvard College, a few miles from the town, where excellent work is being done in star photography from that eminently suitable spot for the study of the sky.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, a boy who was sitting on the steps of the observatory suddenly exclaimed, "The savages are coming!
In 1828 William Beer, the Berlin banker, brother of the great composer, Meyerbeer, a Jew, built a small observatory in the suburbs of Berlin.
When his map came out, he was at once secured by the Prussian Government as assistant astronomer to the observatory at Berlin, recently erected.
There was no mistaking it--with the domed observatory on the roof.
