 | Thomas Kerigan - 1838 - 804 ページ
...the equatorial radius : and this is found to correspond with the phenomena which should arise from the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis. — And since it thus appears that the equatorial radius of the earth is to the polar semi-axis in... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 304 ページ
...order to obtain its true place, are called Equations. Thus the elliptical form of the earth's orbit, the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, severally affect the place of the sun in his apparent orbit, for which equations are applied. In a... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1842 - 674 ページ
...This subject introduces several interesting and important propositions: among others, the calculations of the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis; the formula for Precession is prepared for numerical calculation; the reduction to numbers will be... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1845 - 514 ページ
...phenomenon itself can be genetically explained. Even after we have allowed for all that belongs to the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, as consequences of the influence of the sun and moon upon the spheroidal figure of our planet, to the... | |
 | Augustus Young - 1846 - 304 ページ
...progressive motion of light, and in which it is said that Dr. Bradley was the discoverer of the inequalities of the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, arising from the attraction of the moon in different situations of its nodes ; and from the length... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 ページ
...the difficulty in 1749. The other great problem, the investigation of which occupied D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop, of the third book, had... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 ページ
...the difficulty in 1749. The other great problem, the investigation of which occupied D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop. of the third book, had... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 ページ
...conjecture. From the formulae which determine the difference of the consecutive tides, it is proved that the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, are the same as if the sea formed one solid mass with the earth. Oscillations of the third kind are... | |
 | James Roche - 1851 - 624 ページ
...the confirmation of the Newtonian system. The work had been preceded in 1749, by his " Researches on the Precession of the Equinoxes," and the " Nutation of the Earth's Axis." His " Opuscules Mathematiques," extending to eight tomes in quarto, and embracing a large collection... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 520 ページ
...the difficulty in 1749. The other great problem, the investigation of which occupied D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop, of the third book, had... | |
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D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. 
