 | Frederick Walter Simms - 1834 - 134 pages
...other, it would be 7s, 3 or 7", 7, &c. according to its apparent relative distance from the wire. 60 observations is deserving of more confidence than...wire, will be compensated by an opposite error at another ; thus destroying each other's effect, the mean result will come out very nearly the same as... | |
 | Frederick Walter Simms - 1834 - 124 pages
...whole taken, which will represent the time of the star's passage over the mean or meridional wire. The utility of having five wires instead of the central...from the consideration that a mean result of several r observations is deserving of more confidence than a single one; since the chances are, that an error... | |
 | Frederick Walter Simms - 1836 - 160 pages
...whole taken, which will represent the time of the star's passage over the mean or meridional wire. The utility of having five wires instead of the central...wire, will be compensated by an opposite error at another ; thus destroying each other's effect, the mean result will come out very nearly the same as... | |
 | Frederick Walter Simms - 1844 - 178 pages
...whole taken, which will represent the time of the star's passage over the mean or meridional wire. The utility of having five wires instead of the central...made at one wire will be compensated by an opposite exror 79 at another ; thus destroying each other's effect, the mean result will come out very nearly... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1846 - 854 pages
...whole taken, which will represent the time of the star's passage over the mean or meridional wire. The utility of having five wires, instead of the central...is deserving of more confidence than a single one. In observing the gun, the times of passing of both the first end second limbs over the wires, are to... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1855 - 508 pages
...time of the star's passage over the mean or meridional wire. Five or seven wires are more valuable than a single one, since the chances are that an error which may have been committed at one wire will be compensated by an opposite error at another. Thus the mean result of... | |
 | Elias Loomis - 1855 - 514 pages
...which may have been committed at one wire will be compensated by an opposite error at another. Thus the mean result of several observations is deserving of more confidence than a single one. The following is an observation of Arcturus, made at Greenwich Observatory, November 13th, 1850 : First... | |
 | 1880 - 880 pages
...whole taken, which will represent the time of the star's passage over the mean or meridional wire. The utility of having five wires, instead of the central...is deserving of more confidence than a single one. In observing the nun, the times of passing of both the first and second limbs over the wires, are to... | |
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... or 7% 7, &c. according to its apparent relative distance from the wire. This kind of observation must be made at each of the five wires, and a mean of the whole taken, which will represent the time of the star's passage over the mean or meridional... 