On the Connection of the Physical SciencesHarper & brothers, 1846 - 460 pages |
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... Latitude - Nodes - Elements of an Orbit -Undisturbed or Elliptical Orbits - Great Inclination of the Orbits of the new Planets - Universal Gravitation the Cause of Perturbations in the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies - Problem of the ...
... Latitude - Nodes - Elements of an Orbit -Undisturbed or Elliptical Orbits - Great Inclination of the Orbits of the new Planets - Universal Gravitation the Cause of Perturbations in the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies - Problem of the ...
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... latitude ( N. 13 ) , or part of the earth intermediate between the pole and the equator , where the attraction of the earth on bodies at its surface is the same as if it were a sphere ; and experience shows that bodies there fall ...
... latitude ( N. 13 ) , or part of the earth intermediate between the pole and the equator , where the attraction of the earth on bodies at its surface is the same as if it were a sphere ; and experience shows that bodies there fall ...
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... Latitude - Nodes - Elements of an Orbit -Undisturbed or Elliptical Orbits - Great Inclination of the Orbits of the new Planets - Universal Gravitation the Cause of Perturbations in the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies - Problem of the ...
... Latitude - Nodes - Elements of an Orbit -Undisturbed or Elliptical Orbits - Great Inclination of the Orbits of the new Planets - Universal Gravitation the Cause of Perturbations in the Motions of the Heavenly Bodies - Problem of the ...
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... latitude ( N. 54 ) ; which is south or north , according as the planet is south or north of that plane . When the planet is in the plane of the ecliptic , its latitude is zero : it SECT . II . ELLIPTICAL MOTION .
... latitude ( N. 54 ) ; which is south or north , according as the planet is south or north of that plane . When the planet is in the plane of the ecliptic , its latitude is zero : it SECT . II . ELLIPTICAL MOTION .
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Mary Somerville. of the ecliptic , its latitude is zero : it is then said to be in its nodes ( N. 55 ) . The ascending node is that point in the ecliptic , through which the planet passes , in going from the southern to the northern ...
Mary Somerville. of the ecliptic , its latitude is zero : it is then said to be in its nodes ( N. 55 ) . The ascending node is that point in the ecliptic , through which the planet passes , in going from the southern to the northern ...
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