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THE purpose of the author was to afford the astronomers engaged in the great European Triangulation tables for facilitating the reduction of the observations made for finding azimuths and the altitude of the pole. The work is, however, of more than a transient merit, for it will probably be of much assistance to our Indian officers engaged in the great trigonometrical survey of the Peninsula, and some of the tabular matter might henceforth in a modified form be well included in works on higher geodetic operations generally.
Practical Astronomy and Geodesy.—Geographische Ortsbestimmungen mit Hülfstafeln. 4to. pp. 88.
By W. Valentiner (Leipzig: 1869. London: Williams and Norgate.)
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L., B. Practical Astronomy and Geodesy.—Geographische Ortsbestimmungen mit Hülfstafeln 4to pp 88. Nature 1, 283 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001283b0
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