CHAPTER XIII. THE EXACT MEASUREMENT OF PHENOMENA.
1
Baily, British Association Catalogue of Stars, pp. 7, 23.
2
Outlines of Astronomy, 4th ed. sect. 781, p. 522. Results of Observations at the Cape of Good Hope, &c., p. 37.
3
See De Morgan, Study of Mathematics, in U.K.S. Library, p. 81.
4
Loomis, On the Aurora Borealis. Smithsonian Transactions, quoting Parry’s Third Voyage, p. 61.
5
Watts’ Dictionary of Chemistry, vol. ii. p. 790.
6
Philosophical Transactions, (1856) vol. 146, Part i. p. 297.
7
Airy, On Tides and Waves, Encyclopædia Metropolitana, p. 345. Scott Russell, British Association Report, 1837, p. 432.
8
Hugenii Cosmotheoros, pp. 117, 118. Laplace’s Système, translated, vol. i. p. 67.
9
Grant’s History of Physical Astronomy, p. 129.