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Perturbations , Periodic and Secular — Disturbing Action equivalent to three Partial Forces - Tangential Force the cause the Periodic Inequalities in Longitude , and Secular Inequalities in the Form and Position of the Orbit in its own ...
Perturbations , Periodic and Secular — Disturbing Action equivalent to three Partial Forces - Tangential Force the cause the Periodic Inequalities in Longitude , and Secular Inequalities in the Form and Position of the Orbit in its own ...
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... Velocity of Light Aberration Ethereal Medium Satellites of Saturn and Uranus Page 27 SECTION V. Lunar Theory — Periodic Perturbations of the Moon — Equation of Centre - Evection Variation — Annual Equation Direct and Indirect Action ...
... Velocity of Light Aberration Ethereal Medium Satellites of Saturn and Uranus Page 27 SECTION V. Lunar Theory — Periodic Perturbations of the Moon — Equation of Centre - Evection Variation — Annual Equation Direct and Indirect Action ...
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The Fixed Stars - Their Number · The Milky Way - Double Stars Binary Systems Their Orbits and Periodic Times - Colours of the Stars Stars that have vanished - Variable Stars - Variation in Sun's Light - Parallax and Distances of the ...
The Fixed Stars - Their Number · The Milky Way - Double Stars Binary Systems Their Orbits and Periodic Times - Colours of the Stars Stars that have vanished - Variable Stars - Variation in Sun's Light - Parallax and Distances of the ...
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... and including all the bodies of the system in its action , Kepler also deduced from observation that the squares of the periodic times ( N. 25 ) of the planets , or the times of their revolutions round the sun , are proportional to ...
... and including all the bodies of the system in its action , Kepler also deduced from observation that the squares of the periodic times ( N. 25 ) of the planets , or the times of their revolutions round the sun , are proportional to ...
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... and the periodic time unaltered , because the planet would arrive at the extremities of the major axis at the same instant , and would have the same velocity , whether it moved in the circular or elliptical orbit , since the curves ...
... and the periodic time unaltered , because the planet would arrive at the extremities of the major axis at the same instant , and would have the same velocity , whether it moved in the circular or elliptical orbit , since the curves ...
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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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