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Excerpt from The Catalogue of Stars of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: Containing the Mean Right Ascensions and North Polar Distances of Eight Thousand Three Hundred and Seventy-Seven Fixed Stars, Reduced to January 1, 1850; Together With Their Annual Precessions, Secular Variations and Proper Motions
Even a reference to a table of logarithms may be obviated by the use of the two pages of logarithms in Table VII which have been here introduced for the convenience of computers, who may not have an immediate or ready access to a book of logarithms.catalogue should be formed on a similar model. That work, the prototype of the present volume, was executed in the year 1827; and, although printed as an Ap pendix to the second volume of the Memoirs of the Society, was also published separately under the title of New Tables for facilitating the computation of Preces sion, Aberration and Nutation of 2881 principal fired Stars, together with a Catalogue of the same. The more immediate object and utility of that work will be best seen and appreciated by reading the following extract from the Address of Sir john herschel (then President of the Society) on delivering the Medals on this occa sion, on April 11th, 1827.
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