| James Bradley - 1747 - 52 pages
...Northerly, than it did in the Year 1727. As this Appearance in^ Ttraconis, indicated a Diminution of the Inclination of the Earth's Axis to the Plane of the Ecliptic; and as feveral Aftronomere have fuppofed that Inclination to diminifh regularly; if this Phenomenon depended... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1771 - 622 pages
...Granting, for argument's fake, that there is, and has been, a regular and fucceffive diminution of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, and making the mof t liberal allowances with regard to its quantity, thefe conceffions will not, according... | |
| Several Hands - 1771 - 614 pages
...Granting, for argument's fake, that there is, and has been, a regular and fuccefiive diminution of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, and making the moft liberal allowances with regard to its quantity, thefe conceffions will not, according... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 738 pages
...northerly, than it did in the year 1727. As this appearance in y Draconis, indicated a diminution of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic; and as several astronomers have supposed that inclination to diminish regularly; if this phenomenon depended... | |
| Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - 1864 - 372 pages
...plants, are intimately associated with the succession of the seasons, and this in its turn depends on the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, and on the great primary laws by which this axis is constantly maintained in a position parallel to itself... | |
| John Fiske - 1874 - 522 pages
...the branches of molecular physics, but also with astronomy, since climatic rhythms depend upon the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, and more remotely upon the variations in that inclination known as precession and nutation. It is for this... | |
| John Fiske - 1874 - 504 pages
...the branches of molecular physics, but also with astronomy, since climatic rhythms depend upon the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, and more remotely xipon the variations in that inclination known as precession and nutation. It is for... | |
| John Fiske - 1875 - 496 pages
...the branches of molecular physics, but also with astronomy, since climatic rhythms depend upon the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, and more remotely upon the variations in that inclination known as precession and nutation. It is for this... | |
| 1879 - 188 pages
...we can not conceive of any force likely to produce it. For the past fifty years, the relation of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic and its varying angle with the line of the apsides, has been the subject of careful study, from the impression... | |
| 1884 - 472 pages
...phenomena, we cannot confine our attention solely to a diagnosis of stmspots, and the possibly ver}' limited changes which the solar physical conditions...(2) the fixed inclination of the earth's axis to the piano of the ecliptic, and (3) the change in the absolute distance of the sun from tbo earth due to... | |
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