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... MOTION AND PHYSICAL CONSTITUTION . Apparent motion of the Sun not uniform . Its apparent diameter also variable . Variation of its distance concluded . Its apparent orbit an ellipse about the focus . Law of the angular velocity ...
... MOTION AND PHYSICAL CONSTITUTION . Apparent motion of the Sun not uniform . Its apparent diameter also variable . Variation of its distance concluded . Its apparent orbit an ellipse about the focus . Law of the angular velocity ...
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... motion . Relative motion . Motions partly real , partly apparent . Geocentric astronomy , or ideal reference of phænomena to the Earth's centre as a common conventional station CHAPTER II . · - 11 Terminology and elementary geometrical ...
... motion . Relative motion . Motions partly real , partly apparent . Geocentric astronomy , or ideal reference of phænomena to the Earth's centre as a common conventional station CHAPTER II . · - 11 Terminology and elementary geometrical ...
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... motion CHAPTER IX . OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM . · 290 Apparent motions of the planets . The stations and retrogradations . The Sun their natural center of motion . Inferior planets . Their phases , periods , etc. Dimensions and form of their ...
... motion CHAPTER IX . OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM . · 290 Apparent motions of the planets . The stations and retrogradations . The Sun their natural center of motion . Inferior planets . Their phases , periods , etc. Dimensions and form of their ...
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... MOTION . RELATIVE MOTION . MOTIONS PARTLY REAL , PARTLY APPARENT . CENTRIC ASTRONOMY , OR IDEAL REFERENCE OF PHÆNOMENA TO THE EARTH'S CENTRE AS A COMMON CONVENTIONAL STATION . ( 11. ) THE magnitudes , distances , arrangement , and ...
... MOTION . RELATIVE MOTION . MOTIONS PARTLY REAL , PARTLY APPARENT . CENTRIC ASTRONOMY , OR IDEAL REFERENCE OF PHÆNOMENA TO THE EARTH'S CENTRE AS A COMMON CONVENTIONAL STATION . ( 11. ) THE magnitudes , distances , arrangement , and ...
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... motion of so vast a mass , in which every object he sees around him participates alike , will ( art . 15. ) prevent his enter- taining any suspicion of his actual change of place . Yet , with respect to external objects , that is to say ...
... motion of so vast a mass , in which every object he sees around him participates alike , will ( art . 15. ) prevent his enter- taining any suspicion of his actual change of place . Yet , with respect to external objects , that is to say ...
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