The Elements of Astronomy: Or, The World as it Is, and as it Appears

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Crocker and Brewster, 1850 - 376 σελίδες

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Σελίδα 330 - ... that the mean longitude of the first satellite, minus three times that of the second, plus twice that of the third, is always equal to two right angles.
Σελίδα 262 - But, in the midst of all these vicissitudes, the length of the major axes and the mean motions of the planets remain permanently independent of secular changes. They are so connected by Kepler's law, of the squares of the periodic times being proportional to the cubes of the mean distances of the planets from the sun, that one cannot vary without affecting the other.
Σελίδα 37 - Now, suppose the head of the screw to be a circle, whose diameter is an inch, the circumference of the head will be something more than three inches : this may be easily divided into a hundred equal parts distinctly visible. If a fixed index be presented to this graduated circumference, the hundredth part of a revolution of the screw may be observed, by noting the passage of one division of the head under the index. Since one entire revolution of the head moves the point through the fiftieth of an...
Σελίδα 199 - our astronomical observer" at a salary of £100 per annum, his duty being "forthwith to apply himself with the most exact care and diligence to the rectifying the tables of the motions of the heavens and the places of the fixed stars, so as to find out the so much desired longitude of places for the perfecting the art of navigation.
Σελίδα 22 - The Latitude of a star is its angular distance from the ecliptic measured on a circle of latitude.
Σελίδα 13 - A sphere is a solid terminated by a curved surface all the points of which are equally distant from a point within called the centre.
Σελίδα 258 - The radial force, or that part of the disturbing force which acts in the direction of the line joining the centres of the sun and disturbed planet, has no effect on the areas, but is the cause of periodical changes of small extent in the distance of the planet from the sun. It has already been shown, that the force producing perfectly elliptical motion varies inversely as the square of the distance, and...
Σελίδα 13 - The radius of a sphere, is a straight line drawn from the center to any point of the surface.
Σελίδα 38 - Now, the arc of a circle, subtended by one second, is less than the 200,000th part of the radius, so that on a circle of 6 feet in diameter it would occupy no greater linear extent than part of an inch ; a quantity requiring a powerful microscope to be discerned at all.
Σελίδα 345 - As the moon can never be full but when she is opposite to the sun, and the sun is never in Virgo and Libra, but in our autumnal months, it is plain that the moon is never full in the opposite signs, Pisces and Aries, but in these two months. And...

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