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SIR JOHN HERSCHEL'S dictum in his well-known panegyric on star-catalogues, that “every well-determined star from the moment its place is registered is as effective for mapping down the intricacies of a petty barony as for adjusting the boundaries of transatlantic empires,” may be taken as the raison d'être of this book. The author is professor of mathematics and mechanics in the University of Adelaide, and doubtless the southern continent gives scope for surveying on a large scale in which astronomical observation is a necessity.
The Elements of Astronomy for Surveyors.
By Prof. R. W. Chapman. Pp. x + 248. (London: C. Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1919.) Price 5s. net.
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The Elements of Astronomy for Surveyors . Nature 104, 499 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104499a0
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