 | 1842 - 446 ページ
...conjecture. From the formulee 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 tea formed one solid mass with the earth. ' '.-, ,'),--' ,,,r' , of the third... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1827 - 456 ページ
...example above, find the error produced in the result by an error of 11" in the altitude. 14. Explain the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the Earth's axis, without analogical reference to the disturhances produced by the Sun in the Moon's motion: and point... | |
 | 1813 - 562 ページ
...will not any way correspond with the measured portions of the surface of the earth." " Hence it is that philosophers are not yet agreed in opinion with regard to the figure of the earth ; some contending, that it has no regular jigure, that is, not such as would be... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1847 - 562 ページ
...the confirmation of the Newtonian system. The work had been preceded in J 749, by his " Researches on the Precession of the Equinoxes," and the " Nutation of the Earth's Axis." His " Opuscles Mathematiques," extending to eight tomes in quarto, and embracing a large collection... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1893 - 908 ページ
...Reserved. JEWTON & CO.'S NEW TOP. Illustrates the Stability due to rotation, in a very novel way. Also the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis. The Steel Axis follows all the Curves and Angles of any Geometrical Figure. The Top complete, with... | |
 | 1824 - 996 ページ
...that the earth, at the period of its consolidation, had a different axis from what it has at present. The precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, indicate, in the opinion of Laplace, that the density of the globe increases towards the centre. Mr... | |
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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. 
