Ita extrication is due entirely to theory. The inequality is peculiar to the theory of Jupiter and Saturn : its special cause is to be sought for in the near commensurability of the mean motions of Jupiter and Saturn : which mean motions are nearly as... An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy. ... - Page lixby Robert Woodhouse - 1818 - 487 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1831 - 416 pages
...he found a clue to the principal object he had in view. For he ascertained that, in consequence of the near commensurability of the mean motions of Jupiter and Saturn (which are nearly as 5 to 2), those terms only, in the resulting expression, need be retained, which, after... | |
| Royal Astronomical Society - 1831 - 422 pages
...he found a clue to the principal object he had in view. For he ascertained that, in consequence of the near commensurability of the mean motions of Jupiter and Saturn (which are nearly as 5 to 2), those terms only, in the resulting expression, need be retained, which, after... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1850 - 378 pages
...but, at length, the immortal Laplace came forward, and showed the cause of these discrepancies to be in the near commensurability of the mean motions of Jupiter and Saturn ; which cause we now endeavor to bring to the mind of the reader in a clear and emphatic manner. ( 197.) The... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - 1859 - 424 pages
...but, at length, the immortal Laplace came forward, and showed the cause of these discrepancies to be in the near commensurability of the mean motions of Jupiter and Saturn ; which cause we now endeavor to bring to the mind of the reader in a clear and emphatic manner. ( 197.) The... | |
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