Lexicographical Neighbors of Lunars
Literary usage of Lunars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mathematical and Astronomical Tables: For the Use of Students in Mathematics by William Galbraith (1834)
"I. BY lunars. Since the rotation of the earth about its axis is performed in a
day, the sun appears to pass over 360° in 24 hours, and, consequently, ..."
2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1855)
"It is certainly much darker than the ring A.' " On Sating Chronometers by lunars.
By H. Toynbee, Esq., Commander of the Gloriana, East Indiaman. ..."
3. The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal by Royal Society of Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society, David Brewster, Robert Jameson (1821)
"HE new method of working lunars which I now send you, is superior, taking it
altogether, to any that I have yet soon. It is as short as any, ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1860)
"Besides the trigonometrically rigorous methods of reducing lunars, there has been
during the last ninety years a multitude of approximate methods more or ..."
5. Life in the Sandwich Islands: Or, The Heart of the Pacific, as it was and is by Henry Theodore Cheever (1856)
"... to find the meridian of truth—Illustration from the working of longitude by
lunars. IT is one of the most grateful recollections of the tour we have ..."
6. Hints on Sea-risks: Containing Some Practical Suggestions for Diminishing by Edward Jennings (1843)
"I recommend those who have not practised taking lunars*to do so, as one of the
only TWO means of ascertaining then- longitude with any certainty. ..."
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