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DETERMINATION OF THE SOLAR PARALLAX.—A. Auwers, in Astronomische Nachrichten (No. 3066), gives the results-obtained in the determination of the solar parallax from the heliometer observations made by the German Transit of Venus Expedition, in the years 1874 and 1882. The number of measurements taken amounted to 754, of which 308 were made from the 1874, and the remaining 446 from the 1882 transit. Taking each series of measurements of each transit separately, and applying the corrections of Leverrier's tables,
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Our Astronomical Column. Nature 45, 89–90 (1891). https://doi.org/10.1038/045089a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/045089a0