An Elementary Treatise on the Lunar Theory: With a Brief Sketch of the History of the Problem Up to the Time of NewtonMacmillan, 1859 - 119 σελίδες |
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... Epicycle • 112 Hipparchus's mode of representing the Motion of the Apse 113 Substitution of the Elliptic for the Circular Orbit 114 Ptolemy's discovery of the Evection 115 His manner of representing it . 117 Copernicus's Hypothesis for ...
... Epicycle • 112 Hipparchus's mode of representing the Motion of the Apse 113 Substitution of the Elliptic for the Circular Orbit 114 Ptolemy's discovery of the Evection 115 His manner of representing it . 117 Copernicus's Hypothesis for ...
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... epicycle on another as each newly discovered inequality seemed to render it necessary . The means of taking into account the ellipsoidal figure of the earth and the disturbances produced by the planets , are too complex to form part of ...
... epicycle on another as each newly discovered inequality seemed to render it necessary . The means of taking into account the ellipsoidal figure of the earth and the disturbances produced by the planets , are too complex to form part of ...
Σελίδα 61
... epicycles of Hipparchus and his followers were the result of numerous and laborious observations and comparisons of observations ; each epicycle being introduced to correct its predecessor when this one was found inadequate to give the ...
... epicycles of Hipparchus and his followers were the result of numerous and laborious observations and comparisons of observations ; each epicycle being introduced to correct its predecessor when this one was found inadequate to give the ...
Σελίδα 101
... epicycle , which led to the same result . A small circle PM , with a radius equal to EC of previous figure , has its centre in the circumference of the circle RPD ( which has the same radius as that of the eccentric ) , and moves round ...
... epicycle , which led to the same result . A small circle PM , with a radius equal to EC of previous figure , has its centre in the circumference of the circle RPD ( which has the same radius as that of the eccentric ) , and moves round ...
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... epicycle , this motion of the apse could as easily be represented by supposing the radius which connects the moon with the centre of the epicycle to have this uniform angular velocity of about 3 ° in each revolution , and also in the ...
... epicycle , this motion of the apse could as easily be represented by supposing the radius which connects the moon with the centre of the epicycle to have this uniform angular velocity of about 3 ° in each revolution , and also in the ...
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