Crossword-Solution: BESSEL
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| BESSEL | anagram | BELESS, BLESSE, SSELBE |
We have 4 clues for the answer “BESSEL”
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| German astronomer who was the first to measure the distance to a star | 1 answer |
| Lunar crater named for an astronomer | 1 answer |
| Prussian astronomer. | 1 answer |
| BERGIUS, FRIEDRICH | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who elects, or has the right of choice; a person who
is entitled to take part in an election, or to give his vote in favor
of a candidate for office.
Hint 2 anagram
CREETLO
Hint 3 another clue
A BALLOT CAST BY A VOTER WHO VOTES FOR ALL THE CANDIDATES OF ONE PARTY
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Sentences with BESSEL (5)
The parallax of fixed stars, shown by Bessel as well as other noted astronomers in 1838, clinched forever the doctrine of the revolution of the earth around the sun, and in 1851 the great experiment of Foucault with the pendulum showed to the human eye the earth in motion around its own axis.
BRADLEY AND THE ABERRATION OF LIGHT Halley was succeeded as astronomer royal by a man whose useful additions to the science were not to be recognized or appreciated fully until brought to light by the Prussian astronomer Bessel early in the nineteenth century.
Henderson's observations had actual precedence in point of time, but Bessel's measurements were so much more numerous and authoritative that he has been uniformly considered as deserving the chief credit of the discovery, which priority of publication secured him.
The opening up of this "astronomy of the invisible" is another of the great achievements of the nineteenth century, and again it is Bessel to whom the honor of discovery is due.
Thus it was found that different persons vary in the rate of their central nervous activity--which explained the "personal equation" that the astronomer Bessel had noted a half-century before.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1962–2007).