A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century / Fourth Edition

by Agnes M. Clerke

[756] Opera, t. iii., p. 326.

[757] Comptes Rendus, t. xlvi., p. 882. The parallax 8·95′ derived by Leverrier from the above-described inequality in the earth's motion, was corrected by Stone to 8·91′. Month. Not., vol. xxviii., p. 25.

[758] Month. Not., vol. xxxv., p. 156.

[759] Wash. Obs., 1865, App. ii., p. 28.

[760] Comptes Rendus, t. xxix., p. 90.

[761] Ibid., t. xxx., p. 551.

[762] Ibid., t. lv., p. 501. The previously admitted velocity was 308 million metres per second; Foucault reduced it to 298 million. Combined with Struve's "constant of aberration" this gave 8.86′ for the solar parallax, which exactly agreed with Cornu's result from a repetition of Fizeau's experiments in 1872. Comptes Rendus, t. lxxvi., p. 338.

[763] Month. Not., vol. xxiv., p. 103.

[764] Astr. Papers of the American Ephemeris, vol. ii., p. 263.

[765] Month. Not., vol. xvii., p. 208.