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... to Mass - Gravitation of the Particles of Matter — Figure of the Planets - How it affects the Motions of their Satellites - Rotation and Translation impressed by the same Impulse — Motion of the Sun and Solar System SECTION II .
... to Mass - Gravitation of the Particles of Matter — Figure of the Planets - How it affects the Motions of their Satellites - Rotation and Translation impressed by the same Impulse — Motion of the Sun and Solar System SECTION II .
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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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Mean and Apparent Sidereal Time - Mean and Apparent Solar TimeEquation of Time — English and French Subdivisions of Time - Leap Year Christian Era — - Equinoctial Time - Remarkable Eras depending upon the Position of the Solar Perigee ...
Mean and Apparent Sidereal Time - Mean and Apparent Solar TimeEquation of Time — English and French Subdivisions of Time - Leap Year Christian Era — - Equinoctial Time - Remarkable Eras depending upon the Position of the Solar Perigee ...
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Chemical or Photographic Rays of Solar Spectrum — Scheele , Ritter , and Wollaston's Discoveries Wedgwood's and Sir Humphry Davy's Photographic Pictures — The Calotype — The Daguerreotype The Chromatype The Cyanotype Collodion Sir John ...
Chemical or Photographic Rays of Solar Spectrum — Scheele , Ritter , and Wollaston's Discoveries Wedgwood's and Sir Humphry Davy's Photographic Pictures — The Calotype — The Daguerreotype The Chromatype The Cyanotype Collodion Sir John ...
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Ethereal Medium - Comets - Do not disturb the Solar System — Their Orbits and Disturbances M. Faye's Comet probably the same with Lexel's Periods of other three known Acceleration in the mean Motions of Encke's and Biela's Comets — The ...
Ethereal Medium - Comets - Do not disturb the Solar System — Their Orbits and Disturbances M. Faye's Comet probably the same with Lexel's Periods of other three known Acceleration in the mean Motions of Encke's and Biela's Comets — The ...
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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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