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... Earth determined from it · Lunar , Solar , and Planetary Eclipses — Occultations and Lunar Distances Mean Distance of the Sun from the Earth obtained from Lunar Theory - Absolute Distances of the Planets , how found 34 SECTION VI .
... Earth determined from it · Lunar , Solar , and Planetary Eclipses — Occultations and Lunar Distances Mean Distance of the Sun from the Earth obtained from Lunar Theory - Absolute Distances of the Planets , how found 34 SECTION VI .
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... the inconceivable rapidity with which they move , and the enormous distances between them , impress the mind with some ... use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets ...
... the inconceivable rapidity with which they move , and the enormous distances between them , impress the mind with some ... use the globe he inhabits as a base wherewith to measure the magnitude and distance of the sun and planets ...
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This , however , is not the case with a spheroid ( N. 9 ) ; but the celestial bodies are so nearly spherical , and at such remote distances from one another , that they attract and are attracted as if each were condensed into a single ...
This , however , is not the case with a spheroid ( N. 9 ) ; but the celestial bodies are so nearly spherical , and at such remote distances from one another , that they attract and are attracted as if each were condensed into a single ...
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minished in the ratio ( N. 16 ) of 1 to 3600 , which is the square of the moon's distance ( N , 17 ) from the earth's centre , estimated in terrestrial radii , it is found to be exactly the space the moon would fall through in the first ...
minished in the ratio ( N. 16 ) of 1 to 3600 , which is the square of the moon's distance ( N , 17 ) from the earth's centre , estimated in terrestrial radii , it is found to be exactly the space the moon would fall through in the first ...
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... and attracting directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance , does not belong to it when considered in mass only ; particle acts on particle according to the same law when at sensible distances from each other .
... and attracting directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance , does not belong to it when considered in mass only ; particle acts on particle according to the same law when at sensible distances from each other .
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| Title | On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences |
| Author | Mary Somerville |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1858 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 12 Apr 2012 |
| Length | 523 pages |
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