X. Preliminary report on the results obtained in Novaya Zemlya with the prismatic camera during the eclipse of the sun, August 9th, 1896 | Zendy

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X. Preliminary report on the results obtained in Novaya Zemlya with the prismatic camera during the eclipse of the sun, August 9th, 1896

Author(s) -

J. Norman Lockyer

Publication year - 1897

Publication title -

philosophical transactions of the royal society of london series a containing papers of a mathematical or physical character

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2053-9258

pISSN - 0264-3952

DOI - 10.1098/rsta.1897.0010

Subject(s) - george (robot) , solar eclipse , eclipse , subject (documents) , state (computer science) , history , meteorology , art history , law , geology , geography , physics , political science , library science , computer science , astronomy , algorithm

I state in another communication the arrangements made for obtaining results with prismatic cameras in Lapland, and how the attempts failed through bad weather. After the instruments had been dispatched to Lapland in H. M. S. “Volage,” Sir George Baden-Powell, K. C. M. G., M. P., generously, and with admirable public spirit, offered to take an expedition to Novaya Zemlya in his yacht “Otaria,” if observers and instruments were forthcoming. Sir George Baden-Powell consulted me on the subject, and ultimately, with the authority of the Vice-President of the Council, Mr. Shackleton, one of the computers employed by the Solar Physics Committee, was detailed to form part of the expedition.

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