| Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 614 σελίδες
...considered, whenever very nice calculations of their relative places are examined into. Article V treats on the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis. These are two effects, which arise from the inclination of the terrestrial axis to the plane of the... | |
| Charles Bossut - 1803 - 580 σελίδες
...create a mechanism in some respects new. The object was, to assign the physical cause, that produces the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the Earth's axis, according to the newtonian system, Observations had taught, that the axis of the Earth has a circular... | |
| William Nicholson - 1805 - 446 σελίδες
...the fame principles to be TsVr of Jupiter's whole gravity. CHAP. IV. OF THE FIGURES OF THE PLANETS; THE PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES, AND THE NUTATION OF THE EARTH'S AXIS. o A MASS of fluid matter will, by its gravity, form itfelf into a fphere. For if the whole mafs be... | |
| Tobias Smollett - 1805 - 582 σελίδες
...ring, according to the French philosopher's hypothesis, may be of that kind which has ne stability. The precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, are very clearly explained : to this explaination succeed observations of a miscellaneous nature, but... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 778 σελίδες
...Phil. Trans,., VOL. XI. D the worth of any performance of that kind. The first essay is a Theory of the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis ; which, as is indebted to you for the discovery of the cause on which it is founded, as it also for... | |
| 1811 - 550 σελίδες
...same equations as the perturbations of the motion of 'a point attracted toward a fixed centre ; thus the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, will be expressed by the samefonrru1s, as give the variations of the elh/tical elements of the planets."... | |
| Charles Hutton - 1811 - 424 σελίδες
...number of observations differ but little from — , which the 3U4> computation from the phenomena of the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, gives for the maximum limit of the compression. 2. From the various results of careful admeasurements... | |
| William Nicholson - 1811 - 866 σελίδες
...same ' equations as the perturbations of the motion of a point attracted toward a fixed centre. Thus the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the Earth's axis, will be expressed by the same formula*, as give the variations of the elliptical elements of the planets.... | |
| Samuel Vince - 1814 - 628 σελίδες
...• . » • i ::-. , nl" '. ni '* • .• . r • • -V -.1 Ji .;t . . • . I ' CHAP, xxxiv. , ON THE PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES, AND THE NUTATION OF THE EARTH'S AXIS. T Art. 1014. AT has already been observed (148), that the equinoctial points have a retrograde motion... | |
| Charles Hutton - 1816 - 618 σελίδες
...greater number of observations differ but little from — , which the computation from the phenomena of the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, gives for the maximum limit of the compression. 3- From 2. From the various results of careful admeasurements... | |
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