 D'Alembert. But in the meantime Matthew Stewart, (Life of Simson, p. 137,) had undertaken to assail this question by the mere help of the ancient geometry, and had marvellously succeeded in reconciling the Newtonian theory with observation. Father Walmisley,...  Lives of Philosophers of the Time of George III. - Page 415by Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 492 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Bossut - 1803 - 580 pages
...create a mechanism in some respects new. The object was, to assign the physical cause, that produces the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the Earth's axis, according to the newtonian system, Observations had taught, that the axis of the Earth has a circular motion round the... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1803 - 614 pages
...considered, whenever very nice calculations of their relative places are examined into. Article V treats on the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis. These are two effects, which arise from the inclination of the terrestrial axis to the plane of the... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1805 - 446 pages
...the fame principles to be TsVr of Jupiter's whole gravity. CHAP. IV. OF THE FIGURES OF THE PLANETS; THE PRECESSION OF THE EQUINOXES, AND THE NUTATION OF THE EARTH'S AXIS. o A MASS of fluid matter will, by its gravity, form itfelf into a fphere. For if the whole mafs be... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 778 pages
...Phil. Trans,., VOL. XI. D the worth of any performance of that kind. The first essay is a Theory of the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis ; which, as is indebted to you for the discovery of the cause on which it is founded, as it also for... | |
 | 1811 - 550 pages
...same equations as the perturbations of the motion of 'a point attracted toward a fixed centre ; thus the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, will be expressed by the samefonrru1s, as give the variations of the elh/tical elements of the planets."... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1811 - 424 pages
...number of observations differ but little from — , which the 3U4> computation from the phenomena of the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, gives for the maximum limit of the compression. 2. From the various results of careful admeasurements... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1811 - 866 pages
...same ' equations as the perturbations of the motion of a point attracted toward a fixed centre. Thus the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the Earth's axis, will be expressed by the same formula*, as give the variations of the elliptical elements of the planets.... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1814 - 628 pages
...Ou the Precession and Nutation arising from the Action of tlie Moon. i • 1O27. The inequality of the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, arising from the attraction of the moon in different situations of its nodes, was discovered by Dr.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1816 - 618 pages
...greater number of observations differ but little from — , which the computation from the phenomena of the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, gives for the maximum limit of the compression. 3- From 2. From the various results of careful admeasurements... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1818 - 594 pages
...the refraction of light while passing through the atmosphere ; — the attractions of mountains ; — the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis ; — the irregular figure and balancing of Saturn's ring, and the dependence of that balancing upon... | |
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