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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Deutscher Verein. "Individualism as a Force in German Literature." Lecture. Prof. Francke...
...availability of the plane mirror in practical astronomy has long been known. Prof. Winlock applied it in his experiments is solar photography. French astronomers also have used it in their "equatorial code." The new "horizontal telescope" is a much simpler and less expensive instrument and has the advantage of retaining more light and being no more liable to distortions or variations from changes of temperature than an ordinary reflecting telescope...
...beginning this series of photometric observations, about ten years ago, Prof. Pickering first made use of a horizontal telescope and mirror attachment. The instrument was called a "photometer." There was a companion telescope, also horizontal, combined with it for observing the reflected image of the polar star. The same instrumental adaptations were made for the subsequent or second series. This long experience gave confidence in incurring the expense of the larger under-taking now brought to perfection...
...announced that owing to illness Prof. A. A. Ripley will be unable to give his lecture before the Deutscher Verein this evening. In Prof. Ripley's stead Prof. Francke will give his postponed lecture on "Individualism as a Force in German Literature." This lecture of Prof. Francke's, when postponed last week, was set down in the calendar for the evening of March...
...probable that if Prof. Ripley is recovered by that date, he will speak before the members of the society on the subject which was announced for this evening, "Goethe as Autobiographer...