sidereal
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In a qualified though very real sense, Sir William Herschel may be called the Founder of Sidereal Astronomy.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)
Sidereal Time at Greenwich or the distance in time the meridian of Greenwich is from the First Point of Aries.
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
And this distance is the same as Greenwich Sidereal Time, i.e.,
From Lectures in Navigation by Draper, Ernest Gallaudet
One day Mr. Jonathan Andrews, the special correspondent of the New York Sidereal System, a very friendly organ, approached Senator Schuyler Clinton with a puzzled look on his face.
From Democracy, an American novel by Adams, Henry
Professor James Harkner Wallis of the Lick Observatory will lecture in the auditorium, at eight o'clock, upon "Theories of the Sidereal System."
From When Patty Went to College by Williams, C. D. (Charles D.)
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