Word: transition
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...added to the Library. Professor Norton continues his manuscript notes on the Authorities for the Life and Works of Michelangelo, and Mr. Winsor begins a Bibliography of the earlier editions of Shakespeare's poems. Professor Holden of the Washington Observatory contributes a list of books and memoirs on the transit of Mercury...
...National Astronomical Observatory at Washington by telegraph, and soon Amherst will have the "time" given every day, and observations taken by which the longitude of Amherst Observatory can be determined within ten feet. It is probable that Amherst will be the New England centre for observations on the transit of Mercury which occurs next year...
ATTENTION is called to a lecture to be given in the chapel of Christ Church, Cambridge, Tuesday evening, February 13, at 7.45, entitled "The United States Government Expedition to Tasmania to observe the Transit of Venus," to be illustrated by views by John Moran, thrown by a powerful stereopticon upon a large canvas screen. The lecturer will be Mr. Leonard Waldo, Assistant at Harvard College Observatory, who accompanied the expedition as Assistant Astronomer. The lecture will be one of importance to those interested in Astronomy, and yet will be so presented as to amuse and instruct a popular audience. Only...
...necessary. No private individual can hope to acquire so large, so valuable, or so comprehensive a collection of books as a rich and well-managed library. The great benefit of any library is that it has books on all subjects, and we can find something in it on the transit of Venus or the restored digamma. As a man reads he soon becomes interested in some particular branch, and desires to learn (pleasing hypothesis!) all he can about it; for this purpose he wants to buy books relating to it for his own private library, and finds a public library...
...Transit,' says Brown of seventy-five...