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THE TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE OF 1882, MAY 17.—Hallaschka, in his “Elementa Eclipsium,” describes this eclipse as broadly total, whereas, it will be, in reality, total, though the zone of totality will not be a broad one. An error in the moon's semi-diameter led to the statement in Hallaschka's work. The following elements of this eclipse, calculated upon the same system that has been applied in the examination of other solar eclipses in this column, will probably be near the truth:—
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Our Astronomical Column . Nature 16, 49–50 (1877). https://doi.org/10.1038/016049a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/016049a0