Download or read book The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year 1842 (Classic Reprint) written by Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris for the Year 1842 The Perturbations ot' Longitude and Radius Vector produced by each of the Planets, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn, have been computed accurately from the Tables for every loth day of the year; the Sums then interpolated with second differences for every sth day and thence the daily perturbations by simple proportion. The other parts of the calculations have been performed independently for every Mean Noon. The Latitude of the Sun, depending on the attraction of the Moon, was computed for every day, and that part depending upon the Planets, Venus and Jupiter, was obtained for each tenth day and interpolated. 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.