This is a list of past revisions of Friedrich Bessel. Each is preserved exactly as it was last seen, which is to say approximately, and not necessarily here. Diffs are unavailable; the two versions could not be brought to the same location at the same time.
cur | prev2019ObscuriBot(talk | contribs). . (2,040 bytes)(−29) m . . (rv MudGeometer_1844 (block evasion); 61 Cygni has been re-measured since by instruments that do not know what they are looking for)(current)
cur | prev21:30, 2 Aug 2019MudGeometer_1844(talk | contribs). . (2,069 bytes)(+29). . (295 YERS TO SEE A WOBBLE. I SEEN A HILL MOVE IN ONE AFTERNOON AND GOT EXPELD FOR SAYING SO)
cur | prevJanuary 2017T. Vogel(talk | contribs). . (2,040 bytes)(+290). . (→ In this encyclopedia: left school at fourteen, and established that the instrument does not end at the eyepiece. the encyclopedia keeps him for the personal equation and not for the star)
cur | prev1896an observer(talk | contribs). . (1,750 bytes)(+70). . (→ and the one at Procyon, fifty-two years after he named it. both are of a kind nobody had imagined)
cur | prev1885an editor(talk | contribs). . (1,680 bytes)(+60). . (rv the Concord; that is exactly backwards, and is the point of the man. he is trusted because he measured his own error and published it)
cur | prev1884the Concord(talk | contribs). . (1,620 bytes)(−60). . (→ struck the parallax; a man who spends his life proving that observers are unreliable has disqualified the one observation he is famous for ~~~~)
cur | prev1862a telescope maker(talk | contribs). . (1,680 bytes)(+90). . (→ found the one at Sirius, while testing a lens. it is where he said and it is far too faint for its weight)
cur | prev1846an executor(talk | contribs). . (1,590 bytes)(+40) m . . (→ Death: 17 March, at Königsberg. he was carried to the instrument while he could still be carried)
cur | prev10 August 1844F. Bessel(talk | contribs). . (1,550 bytes)(+160). . (→ Sirius and Procyon do not go straight. each is pulled by something I cannot see and shall not live to see. I give the periods and leave the rest to better glasses)
cur | prev1841F. Bessel(talk | contribs). . (1,390 bytes)(+110). . (→ the figure of the Earth: flattening one in two hundred and ninety-nine, from the Prussian arc. Mr Airy has another and both will be used, in different countries, for a century)
cur | prevDecember 1838F. Bessel(talk | contribs). . (1,280 bytes)(+240). . (→ 61 Cygni: a third of a second of arc. I have spent thirty years finding out how wrong my instruments and I are, which is the only reason this was possible)
cur | prev1823an assistant(talk | contribs). . (1,040 bytes)(+20) m . . (→ talk: he died in 1802, a schoolmaster, aged thirty. the correction is twenty-one years late for him ~~~~)
cur | prev1823F. Bessel(talk | contribs). . (1,020 bytes)(+190). . (→ The personal equation: the assistant dismissed at Greenwich in 1796 was not careless. I have measured myself against men of unquestioned competence and my own difference is the larger. the observer is in the apparatus)
cur | prev1818F. Bessel(talk | contribs). . (830 bytes)(+220). . (→ Bradley's numbers: ten years reducing them. three thousand places, and their proper motions, because he observed seventy years before me and had the decency to be accurate)
cur | prev1810F. Bessel(talk | contribs). . (610 bytes)(+120). . (→ Königsberg: appointed at twenty-six to a chair I have no degree for. the building is not finished and neither am I)
cur | prev1806H. Olbers(talk | contribs). . (490 bytes)(+90). . (→ read it, and have arranged its publication. he is to give up the counting house at once. this is not a request)
cur | prev1804F. Bessel(talk | contribs). . (400 bytes)(+400). . (created; the orbit of the comet of 1607, from Harriot's observations, which nobody had troubled to use. I am a clerk and this is done in the evenings)
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