The Ice age : its date, duration, and astronomical cause as investigated by the late Maj.-general A.W. Drayson, F.R.A.S. and recently confirmed by the error in timing the 1927 solar eclipse. Some inter-confirmatory proofs from astronomy, geology, archaeology and meteorology.

Contributor(s): Drayson, Alfred Wilkes, 1827-1901.
Material type: materialTypeLabelContinuing resourceAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: [Lewes, Sussex] : [W.E. Baxter?], 1927Description: 32 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Subject(s): GLACIATION | ASTRONOMY | GEOLOGY | ARCHEOLOGY | METEOROLOGY | SOLAR ECLIPSES | HISTORYHoldings: GRETA POINT: 521.81 ICE
Contents:
I. Introduction / R.A. Marriott and T.C. Skinner -- II. The true centre of the second rotation of the earth -- III. Calculations to find the obliquity of the ecliptic -- IV. Calculations to find the displacement of the zeniths / Sr. Wm. Salmond -- V. The Ice Age and the so-called solar apex -- VI. The error in the prediction of the solar eclipse of 1927 / A.H. Bartley -- VII. Astronomical proofs - a comparative summary -- VIII. Some archaeological confirmations -- IX. Geological confirmation -- X. A meteorological note / R.A. Marriott -- XI. Some recorded opinions -- XII. Conclusions / R.A.M. and T.C.S.) -- Bibliography.
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BOOK BOOK WELLINGTON BOOKS 521.81 ICE 1 Available Not for interloan B021751

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references (page 32).

I. Introduction / R.A. Marriott and T.C. Skinner -- II. The true centre of the second rotation of the earth -- III. Calculations to find the obliquity of the ecliptic -- IV. Calculations to find the displacement of the zeniths / Sr. Wm. Salmond -- V. The Ice Age and the so-called solar apex -- VI. The error in the prediction of the solar eclipse of 1927 / A.H. Bartley -- VII. Astronomical proofs - a comparative summary -- VIII. Some archaeological confirmations -- IX. Geological confirmation -- X. A meteorological note / R.A. Marriott -- XI. Some recorded opinions -- XII. Conclusions / R.A.M. and T.C.S.) -- Bibliography.

GRETA POINT: 521.81 ICE

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