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The sun was now very low, and the edges of the sun and of Venus were by no means of that steady character which is suitable for micrometrical measurement.

From The Story of the Heavens by Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir

You need not fear that the operator will make any mistake in this micrometrical performance: her sting always slants towards the thorax, although the opposite inclination is just as practicable and easy.

From More Hunting Wasps by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

Dr. See's perception with this instrument, in 1899, of Neptune's cloud-belts, and his refined series of micrometrical measures of the various planets, attest the unimpaired excellence of its optical qualities.

From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Clerke, Agnes M. (Agnes Mary)

Having observed, by means of the most delicate micrometrical instruments, the exact position of the star, let us now pass along this inconceivable road, until we reach its other extremity.

From Eureka: A Prose Poem by Poe, Edgar A.

Then there intervened the observatory at Cincinnati, founded in 1870, on Mount Lookout, thanks to the generosity of Mr. Kilgour, and known for its micrometrical measurements of double stars.

From Robur the Conqueror by Verne, Jules