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It is computed that , had the earth received its motion from a single impulse , that impulse must have passed through a point about twenty - five miles from its centre . Since the motions of rotation and translation of the planets are ...
It is computed that , had the earth received its motion from a single impulse , that impulse must have passed through a point about twenty - five miles from its centre . Since the motions of rotation and translation of the planets are ...
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The terrestrial excentricity is decreasing at the rate of about 40 miles annually ; and , if it were to decrease equably , it would be 39,861 years before the earth's orbit became a circle . The mutual action of Jupiter and Saturn ...
The terrestrial excentricity is decreasing at the rate of about 40 miles annually ; and , if it were to decrease equably , it would be 39,861 years before the earth's orbit became a circle . The mutual action of Jupiter and Saturn ...
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The diameter of Mars , on the other side of the small planets , is 4546 miles , and that of the earth 7925 miles , so that the telescopic group are too minute to disturb the others . M. Le Verrier found another zone of instability ...
The diameter of Mars , on the other side of the small planets , is 4546 miles , and that of the earth 7925 miles , so that the telescopic group are too minute to disturb the others . M. Le Verrier found another zone of instability ...
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... less than that of Jupiter ; and as the compression of Jupiter's spheroid is so great , in consequence of his rapid rotation , that his equatorial diameter exceeds his polar diameter by no less than 6000 miles ; the immense quantity ...
... less than that of Jupiter ; and as the compression of Jupiter's spheroid is so great , in consequence of his rapid rotation , that his equatorial diameter exceeds his polar diameter by no less than 6000 miles ; the immense quantity ...
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Such is its velocity , that the earth , moving at the rate of nineteen miles in a second , would take two months to pass through a distance which a ray of light would dart over in eight minutes . The subsequent discovery of the ...
Such is its velocity , that the earth , moving at the rate of nineteen miles in a second , would take two months to pass through a distance which a ray of light would dart over in eight minutes . The subsequent discovery of the ...
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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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