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Excerpt from Tables to Facilitate the Reduction of Places of the Fixed Stars: Prepared for the Use of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac
The following tables were prepared under the direction of Prof. Joseph winlock, now Director of Harvard College Observatory, while Superintendent of the American Ephemeris and N antical Almanac. They have been used in the preparation of the por tions of that work which relate to the fixed stars, commencing with the volume for 1865; except that some modifications of the mean places and annual motions of the standard stars have been introduced in the present volume and in the Ephemeris for 1870. These changes are given in Table XXIX. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
