Outlines of AstronomyLongman, green and Roberts, 1859 - 714 pages |
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... effect of the disturbing force in altering the disturbed orbit . I will venture to hope that what is here stated will tend to remove some rather generally diffused misapprehensions as to the true bearings of Newton's explanation of the ...
... effect of the disturbing force in altering the disturbed orbit . I will venture to hope that what is here stated will tend to remove some rather generally diffused misapprehensions as to the true bearings of Newton's explanation of the ...
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... effects of the Earth's rotation . Trade winds . Cyclones . Foucault's pendulum experiment . The gyroscope . Determination ... Effect of excentricity of the orbit and position of its axis on climate . Mean and true longitudes of the Sun ...
... effects of the Earth's rotation . Trade winds . Cyclones . Foucault's pendulum experiment . The gyroscope . Determination ... Effect of excentricity of the orbit and position of its axis on climate . Mean and true longitudes of the Sun ...
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... effects . Effects of the orthogonal force . Motion of the nodes . Conditions of their advance and recess . Cases of an ... effect in a whole revolution . Compensation in a com- plete revolution of the nodes . Lagrange's theorem of the ...
... effects . Effects of the orthogonal force . Motion of the nodes . Conditions of their advance and recess . Cases of an ... effect in a whole revolution . Compensation in a com- plete revolution of the nodes . Lagrange's theorem of the ...
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... Effect of the sphe- roidal figure of the Earth and other planets on the motions of their satellites . Of the tides . Masses of disturbing bodies deducible from the perturbations they produce . Mass of the Moon , and of Jupiter's ...
... Effect of the sphe- roidal figure of the Earth and other planets on the motions of their satellites . Of the tides . Masses of disturbing bodies deducible from the perturbations they produce . Mass of the Moon , and of Jupiter's ...
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... effect , could not exist , but must be limited to a mere registry of appearances , unconnected with any attempt to account for them on reasonable principles , however successful to a certain extent might be the attempt to follow out ...
... effect , could not exist , but must be limited to a mere registry of appearances , unconnected with any attempt to account for them on reasonable principles , however successful to a certain extent might be the attempt to follow out ...
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