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Notes shewing how to get the angle of parallax of a comet,, or other phaenomenon at two observations, to be taken in any one station, or place of the earth, and thereby the distance from the earth

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1668.
Call number: 475563
Creator: Holland, R (1596-1677)(Opens in new tab)
Dimensions: 8vo
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