 | 1879 - 876 ページ
...the inclination of the earth's axis to the ecliptic is not constant, a fact including the explanation of the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis. This discovery constitutes a great epoch in astronomy. Latterly, B. became Regius Professor of Astronomy... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 698 ページ
...special degree of influence or prosperity. PRECESSION AND NUTATION, the abbreviated way of expressing the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis. These phenomena should always be considered in connection with the rotation of the earth, of which... | |
 | 1897 - 842 ページ
...the inclination of the earth's axis to the ecliptic is not constant, a fact including the explanation of the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis. Latterly B. became Regius prof, of astronomy at Greenwich, where his observations further enriched... | |
 | 1901 - 886 ページ
...the inclination of the earth's axis to the ecliptic is not constant, a fact including the explanation of the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis. In 1742 Bradley succeeded Halley as regius professor of Astronomy at Greenwich, where, by his observations,... | |
 | 1904 - 868 ページ
...the circumference of an infinitely distant sphere, and the discoveries of the rotation of the earth, the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis were made on this hypothesis. The fixity of the positions of the stars in the sky has served as the... | |
 | Marcus Benjamin, Arthur Elmore Bostwick, Gerald Van Casteel, George Jotham Hagar - 1910 - 556 ページ
...the inclination of the earth's axis BRADLEY BRAKE to the ecliptic is not constant, which explained the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, and a discovery that forms an important epoch in astronomy; left in MS. thirteen volumes of observations,... | |
 | 1869 - 526 ページ
...force which it balances, a second depending on the ellipticity of our planet, and serving to produce the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, while the third, much smaller in magnitude, depends on the attraction of the tidal waters on the moon.... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie, Ivor Grattan-Guinness - 2000 - 338 ページ
...force on the surface of homogeneous spheroids in equilibrium 2. The motion of the tides, together with the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis 3. The oscillations of the atmosphere caused by the gravitational action of the sun and the moon. The... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 878 ページ
...the circumference of an infinitely distant sphere, and the discoveries of the rotation of the earth, the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis were made on this hypothesis. The fixity of the positions of the stars in the sky has served as the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1825 - 510 ページ
...perturbations of the motion of a single particle of matter attracted towards a fixed centre, so that the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, would be expressed by the same formulas, as the variations of the elliptical elements of the orbits... | |
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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. 
