"Accurateness" Quotes from Famous Books
... the phenomena presented by another sun. Those comets, of which your astronomical history is so imperfect, are to them perfectly familiar, and in their ephemerides their places are shown with as much accurateness as those of Jupiter or Venus in your almanacks; the parallax of the fixed stars nearest them is as well understood as that of their own sun, and they possess a magnificent history of the changes taking place in the ... — Consolations in Travel - or, the Last Days of a Philosopher • Humphrey Davy |