Ephemeris Sentence Examples

Possibly the Latin Ephemeris was the work of Septimius himself.

In 1764 he removed to Berlin, where he received many favours at the hand of Frederick the Great and was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Berlin, and in 1774 edited the Berlin Ephemeris.

An ephemeris and guide to Peru was begun by the learned geographer Dr Cosme Bueno, and continued by Dr Unanue, who brought out his guides at Lima from 1 793 to 1798.

Varro was also the author of a Cosmographia, or Chorographia, a geographical poem imitated from the Greek of Eratosthenes or of Alexander of Ephesus, surnamed Lychnus; and of an Ephemeris, a hexameter poem on weather-signs after Aratus, from which Virgil has borrowed.

This erroneous estimate was formed when he had seen the Descriptio but had not read it; and his opinion was very different when he became acquainted with the nature of logarithms. The dedication of his Ephemeris for 1620 consists of a letter to Napier dated the 28th of July 1619, and he there congratulates him warmly on his invention and on the benefit he has conferred upon astronomy generally and upon Kepler's own Rudolphine tables.

Different views with regard to some of these symbols are expressed by Lidzbarski, Ephemeris far semitische Epigraphik, ii.

The Semitic alphabet is excellently treated by Lidzbarski in the Jewish Encyclopaedia (1901); his Nordsemitische Epigraphik (1898) has excellent facsimiles and tables of the alphabets, and there are many contributions to the history of the alphabet in the same writer's Ephemeris fur semitische Epigraphik (Giessen, since 1900).

The results, of these investigations have, for the most part, appeared in the Astronomical Papers of the American Ephemeris, and have been more or less completely adopted for use in the nautical almanacs.

A valuable summary of a considerable part of this work, containing an account of the methods adopted, the materials employed, and the resulting values of the various quantities involved, was published in 1895, as a supplement to the American Ephemeris for 1897, entitled The Elements of the Four Inner Planets and the Fundamental Constants of Astronomy.

In the Astronomical Papers of the American Ephemeris will be found a large number of contributions from Newcomb's pen on some fundamental and most important questions of astronomy.

From the resulting elements of the orbit the positions of the body from day to day may be computed and tabulated in an ephemeris for the use of observers.

During the 19th century observations of the positions of the planet Uranus were seen to be in disagreement with the predicted ephemeris.

It is worth expending some energy on doing this personal ephemeris for a whole year.

In order to figure out the zodiac sign that the moon was in at your birth, you need an astrological tool called an ephemeris.

An ephemeris is a table of charts that lets you know the zodiac sign of each planet on any given day.

There are ephemeris tables for thousands of years in the past and a few hundred into the future.

If you're interested in learning astrology, you may want to invest in an ephemeris.

If you just want to find out your moon sign, you can use an online ephemeris.

The most reliable ephemeris online is located at Astrodienst.

You can also use the ephemeris to study the effects of the "transiting" moon on your natal chart.

Look at the ephemeris for the coming month and find out when the transiting moon will have the same value as your natal sun or natal moon.

By looking at an ephemeris each month, you'll be able to tell when these sensitive transits are happening.

You can create your own moon sign calendar by using an ephemeris and writing in the dates of the moon's sign changes on your own.

In 1852 he graduated at Harvard, and became computer to the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac. He made his name by contributions on mathematical and physical subjects in the Mathematical Monthly.