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Page xv
... Moon's habitability , the cause of the acceleration of Encke's comet , & c . , and a few numerical errors are corrected which have hitherto escaped notice and public comment as blemishes , —as for example , in some of the numbers in Art ...
... Moon's habitability , the cause of the acceleration of Encke's comet , & c . , and a few numerical errors are corrected which have hitherto escaped notice and public comment as blemishes , —as for example , in some of the numbers in Art ...
Page xxiv
... Moon . Its sidereal period . Its apparent diameter . Its parallax , distance , and real diameter . First ... Moon to be an opaque solid . Its light derived from the Sun. Its phases . Synodic revolution or lunar month . Harvest Moon xxiv ...
... Moon . Its sidereal period . Its apparent diameter . Its parallax , distance , and real diameter . First ... Moon to be an opaque solid . Its light derived from the Sun. Its phases . Synodic revolution or lunar month . Harvest Moon xxiv ...
Page xxiv
... Moon . Its sidereal period . Its apparent diameter . Its parallax , distance , and real diameter . First ... Moon to be an opaque solid . Its light derived from the Sun. Its phases . Synodic revolution or lunar month . Harvest Moon xxiv ...
... Moon . Its sidereal period . Its apparent diameter . Its parallax , distance , and real diameter . First ... Moon to be an opaque solid . Its light derived from the Sun. Its phases . Synodic revolution or lunar month . Harvest Moon xxiv ...
Page xxv
... Moon . Its mountains and other superficial features . Indications of former volcanic activity . Its atmo- sphere ... Moon's figure in the direction of the Earth . Its habitability not impossible . Charts , models , and photographs of its ...
... Moon . Its mountains and other superficial features . Indications of former volcanic activity . Its atmo- sphere ... Moon's figure in the direction of the Earth . Its habitability not impossible . Charts , models , and photographs of its ...
Page xxvi
... Moon's nodes . Change of inclination . Conditions of its increase and diminu- tion . Average effect in a whole revolution . Compensation in a com- plete revolution of the nodes . Lagrange's theorem of the stability of the inclinations ...
... Moon's nodes . Change of inclination . Conditions of its increase and diminu- tion . Average effect in a whole revolution . Compensation in a com- plete revolution of the nodes . Lagrange's theorem of the stability of the inclinations ...
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