Notes shewing how to get the angle of parallax of a comet or other phænomenon at two observations : to be taken in any one station or place of the earth and thereby the distance from the earth / by R. Holland.

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Notes shewing how to get the angle of parallax of a comet or other phænomenon at two observations : to be taken in any one station or place of the earth and thereby the distance from the earth / by R. Holland.