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Lama. He said that His Majesty’s Astronomer
at the Cape of Good Hope, His Majesty’s
Astronomer for Scotland, and His Majesty’s
Astronomer for Ireland are not called As-
tronomers Royal.
[5] Annals of the Cape Observatory ,
vol. x., part 3.
[6] The parallax of the sun is the angle
subtended by the earth’s radius at the sun’s
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