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... Evection Variation — Annual Equation Direct and Indirect Action of Planets - The Moon's Action on the Earth disturbs her own Motion — Excentricity and Inclination of Lunar Orbit invariable Acceleration Secular Variation in Nodes and ...
... Evection Variation — Annual Equation Direct and Indirect Action of Planets - The Moon's Action on the Earth disturbs her own Motion — Excentricity and Inclination of Lunar Orbit invariable Acceleration Secular Variation in Nodes and ...
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Objections to the Undulatory Theory , from a difference in the Action of Sound and Light under the same circumstances , removed — The Dispersion of Light according to the Undulatory Theory - Arago's final proof that the Undulatory ...
Objections to the Undulatory Theory , from a difference in the Action of Sound and Light under the same circumstances , removed — The Dispersion of Light according to the Undulatory Theory - Arago's final proof that the Undulatory ...
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Electro - Dynamics Reciprocal Action of Electric Currents — Identity of Electro - Dynamic Cylinders and Magnets — Differences between the Action of Voltaic Electricity and Electricity of Tension — Effects of a Voltaic Current — Ampère's ...
Electro - Dynamics Reciprocal Action of Electric Currents — Identity of Electro - Dynamic Cylinders and Magnets — Differences between the Action of Voltaic Electricity and Electricity of Tension — Effects of a Voltaic Current — Ampère's ...
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The earth may , therefore , be regarded as the centre of a force which extends to the moon ; and , as experience shows that the action and reaction of matter are equal and contrary ( N. 19 ) , the moon must attract the earth with an ...
The earth may , therefore , be regarded as the centre of a force which extends to the moon ; and , as experience shows that the action and reaction of matter are equal and contrary ( N. 19 ) , the moon must attract the earth with an ...
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There is a reciprocal action likewise between the earth and every particle at its surface . The earth and a feather mutually attract each other in the proportion of the mass of the earth to the mass of the feather .
There is a reciprocal action likewise between the earth and every particle at its surface . The earth and a feather mutually attract each other in the proportion of the mass of the earth to the mass of the feather .
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| Title | On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences |
| Author | Mary Somerville |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1858 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2013 |
| Length | 523 pages |
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