ephemerides
- plural of ephemeris.
Example Sentences
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He will find the foreign ephemerides using uniform data worked out in the office of the "American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac" at Washington for the years beginning with 1901.
From The Reminiscences of an Astronomer by Newcomb, Simon
In the present day, the nautical ephemerides contain, several years in advance, the indication of the times of the eclipses and reappearances of Jupiter's satellites.
From Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men by Grant, Robert
Now, I gather from Professor Adams' remarks that upon this question the ephemerides which we now employ have some important bearing.
Those in Pepys's library at Cambridge are of much later date, yet of some no duplicates can be quoted, so vast has been the destruction of these ephemerides.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew
Since that time, the introduction into foreign ephemerides of the improved tables of Le Verrier have rendered them, on the whole, rather more accurate than our own.
From Side-Lights on Astronomy and Kindred Fields of Popular Science by Newcomb, Simon
