On the Connection of the Physical SciencesHarper & brothers, 1846 - 460 pages |
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... Comets -- Velocity of Comets - The Great Comet of 1843 - Physical Con- stitution - Shine by borrowed Light - Estimation of their Number . 337 SECTION XXXVII . The Fixed Stars - Their Numbers - Estimation of their Distances and ...
... Comets -- Velocity of Comets - The Great Comet of 1843 - Physical Con- stitution - Shine by borrowed Light - Estimation of their Number . 337 SECTION XXXVII . The Fixed Stars - Their Numbers - Estimation of their Distances and ...
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... comets also move in conic sections . It consequently follows , that the sun attracts all the planets and comets inversely as the square of their distances from his cen- ter ; the sun , therefore , is the center of a force extend- ing ...
... comets also move in conic sections . It consequently follows , that the sun attracts all the planets and comets inversely as the square of their distances from his cen- ter ; the sun , therefore , is the center of a force extend- ing ...
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... comets . By this problem the motions of translation of the celestial bodies are determined . It is an extremely difficult one , and would be infinitely more so , if the dis- turbing action were not very small when compared with the ...
... comets . By this problem the motions of translation of the celestial bodies are determined . It is an extremely difficult one , and would be infinitely more so , if the dis- turbing action were not very small when compared with the ...
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... comets which have already revealed the existence of this fluid , may also , in time , disclose its rotatory motion . The form and position of the planetary orbits , and the motion of the bodies in the same direction , together with the ...
... comets which have already revealed the existence of this fluid , may also , in time , disclose its rotatory motion . The form and position of the planetary orbits , and the motion of the bodies in the same direction , together with the ...
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... comets , or any unknown and unseen bodies , affect our sun and planets , the nodes of this plane will slowly recede on the plane of that immense orbit which the sun may describe about some most distant center , in a period which it ...
... comets , or any unknown and unseen bodies , affect our sun and planets , the nodes of this plane will slowly recede on the plane of that immense orbit which the sun may describe about some most distant center , in a period which it ...
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