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THE TRANSIT OF VENUS, 1882 DECEMBER 6.—The Greenwich time of first internal contact in this transit at any point in these islands, according to Leverrier's Tables of Sun and Planet, may be accurately found by the following equation, in which l is the geocentric latitude of the place, ρ the corresponding radius of the earth, and L the longitude, reckoned positive, if east of Greenwich, and negative, if west:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 12, 256–257 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012256a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012256a0