On the Connection of the Physical SciencesHarper & brothers, 1846 - 460 pages |
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... Satellites - Rotation and Translation impressed by the same Impulse- Motion of the Sun and Solar System SECTION II ... Satellites - Effects of the Figure of Jupiter upon his Satellites Position of their Orbits - Singular Laws among the ...
... Satellites - Rotation and Translation impressed by the same Impulse- Motion of the Sun and Solar System SECTION II ... Satellites - Effects of the Figure of Jupiter upon his Satellites Position of their Orbits - Singular Laws among the ...
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... Satellites determined from their Perturba- tions - Masses of the others obtained from the Motions of their Satellites -Masses of the Sun , the Earth , of Jupiter , and of the Jovial System- Mass of the Moon - Real Diameters of Planets ...
... Satellites determined from their Perturba- tions - Masses of the others obtained from the Motions of their Satellites -Masses of the Sun , the Earth , of Jupiter , and of the Jovial System- Mass of the Moon - Real Diameters of Planets ...
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... satellites to their planet , and planets to the sun , but it connects sun with sun throughout the wide extent of creation , and is the cause of the disturbances , as well as of the order of nature : since every tremor it excites in any ...
... satellites to their planet , and planets to the sun , but it connects sun with sun throughout the wide extent of creation , and is the cause of the disturbances , as well as of the order of nature : since every tremor it excites in any ...
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... Satellites - Rotation and Translation impressed by the same Impulse- Motion of the Sun and Solar System . IT has been proved by Newton , that a particle of mat- ter ( N. 6 ) placed without the surface of a hollow sphere ( N. 7 ) , is ...
... Satellites - Rotation and Translation impressed by the same Impulse- Motion of the Sun and Solar System . IT has been proved by Newton , that a particle of mat- ter ( N. 6 ) placed without the surface of a hollow sphere ( N. 7 ) , is ...
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... satellites also gravitate to their primaries ( N. 29 ) according to the same law that their primaries do to the sun . Thus , by the law of action and reaction , each body is itself the center of an attractive force A 2 SECT . I. 5 ...
... satellites also gravitate to their primaries ( N. 29 ) according to the same law that their primaries do to the sun . Thus , by the law of action and reaction , each body is itself the center of an attractive force A 2 SECT . I. 5 ...
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