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Tables of the moon : constructed from Plana's theory, with Airy's and Longstreth's corrections, Hansen's two inequalities of long period arising from the action of Venus, and Hansen's values of the secular variations of the mean motion and of the motion of the perigee. Arranged in a form designed by Professor Benjamin Pierce, consulting astronomer, for the use of the Nautical almanac. Under the superintendence of Charles Henry Davis, lieut. United States navy; and published under the authority of the Hon. John P. Kennedy, secretary of the navy