Section II. 

 ASTRONOMY. 



1. Velocity of meteors. Motion of bodies impelled by a single center of force. 



The National Intelligencer, Washington (May 26, 1855), col. 2. 



A letter dated Sudlersville, Md., May 19, 1855, in reply to a letter of May 5, by G. W. Eveleth. 



"When in Maryland I read an elaborate attempt to refute the Copernican system of astronomy, and was quite surprised after 

 waiting some days or weeks to find that no one ventured to point out the writer's fallacies. Fearing that sound knowledge 

 was in danger, I at length ventured in a reply which in due time appeared over my name in The Intelligencer ... It 

 provoked two pleasing attentions — a book from Col. J. J. Abert, of the topographical engineers, and a letter and a pamphlet 

 from Prof. J. Lawrence Smith." Quotation from no. 169 of this bibliography, below. 



2. Elements and ephemeris of the fifty-fourth asteroid, by S. Newcomb and T. H. Safford. 



Astr. JL, vol. 5 (Oct. 16, 1858): 162. 



3. Elliptic elements of comet, 1858, V. 



Astr. JL, vol. 5 (Dec. 20, 1858): 178. 



4. On the secular variations of the eccentricities and perihelia of the asteroids Vesta, Metis, 



Hygea, and Parthenope. 

 Astr. JL, vol. 6 (Nov. 25, 1859): 65-67. 



5. Comparison of the lunar ephemeris in the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, 



with Greenwich Observations. 

 Astr. JL, vol. 6 (Nov. 25 and Dec. 7, 1859): 67-69: 175-176. 

 First communication dated Oct. 13, 1859. 



6. Note on an inequality of long period between the planets Mars and Juno. 



Astr. JL, vol. 6 (Dec. 21, 1859): 80. 



7. On the secular variations of the eccentricities and perihelia of certain of the asteroids. 



Amer. Assoc. Proc, Cambridge, 1859, vol. 13 (1860): 158-162. 



8. On the secular variations and mutual relations of the orbits of the asteroids. 



Mem. Amer. Acad., n. s., vol. 5 (1860): 123-152. 



9. A review of Popular Astronomy by O. M. Mitchell. 



Atlantic Monthly, New York, vol. 6 (July, 1S60): 117-119. 

 Anonymous. 



10. On the supposed intra-mercurial planets. 



Astr. JL, vol. 6 (Nov. 13, 1860): 162-163. 



11. On some illusions and other phenomena attendant on vision through colored media. 



Amer. Jl. Sci., vol. 21 (May, 1861): 418-419. 



12. Modern theoretical astronomy. 



N. Amer. Rev., vol. 93 (Oct., 1861): 367-390. 

 Anonymous. 



13. Smith's Illustrated Astronomy, designed for the use of the public or common schools in 



the United States ... by Asa Smith ... Revised and improved from Notes and Manu- 

 scripts of New Discoveries which have been made to the present date (I860), fur- 

 nished by Prof. Newcomb, of the astronomical department at Cambridge, Mass. 

 Boston, Chase and Nichols, 1862, Sm. 4to. 79 pp. 



The preface to this revised edition states that it had run through fifteen editions since its publication. There were Spanish 

 and Portuguese editions of this work; the American Catalogue of Books in Print and for sale July 1, 1876, lists them as offered 

 for sale by D. Appleton & Co. Whether or not these are translations of the 1S60 (or later) edition could not be determined, 

 la the Library of Congress the latest Spanish edition is .4 stronomia illustrada de Smith ... published in New York by Daniel 

 Burgess & Co., in 1853. In the library of the British Museum there is not only a Spanish edition of 1S57 but also a French 

 edition published at Strasbourg in 1854. 

 Another edition, Boston, S. F. Nichols, 1866, 4to, 79 pp. 



14. On Dr. Lehmann's new determination of the Gaussian constant K. 



Astr. Nach., vol. 57 (Feb. 22, 1862): cols. 65-68. 

 Remarks on this by Lehmann, vol. 60, col. 289. 



15. Determination of the law of distribution of the nodes and perihelia of the small planets 



between Mars and Jupiter. 



Astr. Nach., vol. 5S (Sept. 25, 1862): cols. 209-220. 

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