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Definition of Heliometers
1. heliometer [n] - See also: heliometer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Heliometers
Literary usage of Heliometers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The four long-neglected email heliometers made by Fraun- hofer were brought into
... The Russian Government ordered three new heliometers (each of 4 in. ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"An arrangement, afterwards described, haa been Ctt«d In modem heliometers for
placing the screen In front of either segment by a handle at the eye-end. ..."
3. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century by Agnes Mary Clerke (1893)
"Dr. Elkin, of Yale College, co-operated throughout, and the heliometers of Dresden,
Gottingen, Bamberg, and Leipzig, shared in the work, while Dr. Auwers of ..."
4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1873)
"The German expeditions will be provided with heliometers by Fraunhofer of 34
French lines (3 inches) aperture, and 3J feet focus ; and the Russian ..."
5. Contributions (1908)
"While adjusting and determining the constants of the heliometers which were ...
Five heliometers were used, measures with the same instrument being made in ..."
6. The Popular Science Monthly (1874)
"The Germans and Russians, among whom the use of heliometers has been hitherto
confined, will (with a single exception) alone use them on the approaching ..."
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