On the Connection of the Physical SciencesHarper & brothers, 1846 - 460 pages |
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... Motions of the first three Satellites - Eclipses of the Satellites - Velocity of Light -Aberration - Ethereal Medium - Satellites of Saturn and Uranus 26 SECTION V. Lunar Theory - Periodic Perturbations of the Moon a 2.
... Motions of the first three Satellites - Eclipses of the Satellites - Velocity of Light -Aberration - Ethereal Medium - Satellites of Saturn and Uranus 26 SECTION V. Lunar Theory - Periodic Perturbations of the Moon a 2.
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... Uranus . THE changes which take place in the planetary sys- tem are exhibited on a smaller scale by Jupiter and his satellites ; and , as the period requisite for the develop- ment of the inequalities of these moons only extends to a ...
... Uranus . THE changes which take place in the planetary sys- tem are exhibited on a smaller scale by Jupiter and his satellites ; and , as the period requisite for the develop- ment of the inequalities of these moons only extends to a ...
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... Uranus , is , in all respects , similar to that of Jupiter . Saturn is accompanied by seven satel- lites , the most ... Uranus we know nothing , nor of his compression ; but the orbits of his satellites are nearly perpendicular to the ...
... Uranus , is , in all respects , similar to that of Jupiter . Saturn is accompanied by seven satel- lites , the most ... Uranus we know nothing , nor of his compression ; but the orbits of his satellites are nearly perpendicular to the ...
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... Uranus is no less than nineteen times farther . Situate on the verge of the system , the sun must appear to it not much larger than Venus does to us . The earth cannot even be visible as a telescopic object to a body so re- mote . Yet ...
... Uranus is no less than nineteen times farther . Situate on the verge of the system , the sun must appear to it not much larger than Venus does to us . The earth cannot even be visible as a telescopic object to a body so re- mote . Yet ...
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... Uranus , have already been twice constructed within the last thirty years . The tables of Jupiter and Saturn agree almost perfectly with modern observation ; those of Uranus , however , are already defective , probably because the ...
... Uranus , have already been twice constructed within the last thirty years . The tables of Jupiter and Saturn agree almost perfectly with modern observation ; those of Uranus , however , are already defective , probably because the ...
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