Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, for the Year 1864
The preparation of the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac was begun in the latter part of the year 1849, in accordance with an act of Congress, approved on the 3d of March of that year. An account of this preparation, its details, the values of the constants adopted, and the means employed in various parts of the work to secure additional accuracy, or. Greater convenience, will be found in the Preface and Appendix of the first volume, for the year 1855.
The contents of the volume for this year are the same, generally.
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