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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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... plane at a given epoch as a known and fixed position , The angular distance of a planet from the plane of the ecliptic is its latitude ( N. 54 ) , which is south or north according as the planet is south or north of that plane .
... plane at a given epoch as a known and fixed position , The angular distance of a planet from the plane of the ecliptic is its latitude ( N. 54 ) , which is south or north according as the planet is south or north of that plane .
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Its distance from the sun ( N. 56 ) must also be known ; and , for the complete determination of its elliptical motion , the nature and position of its orbit must be ascertained by observation . This depends upon seven quantities ...
Its distance from the sun ( N. 56 ) must also be known ; and , for the complete determination of its elliptical motion , the nature and position of its orbit must be ascertained by observation . This depends upon seven quantities ...
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Nothing can be known from observation , since the existence of the human race has occupied comparatively but a point in duration , while these vicissitudes embrace myriads of ages . The proof is simple and conclusive .
Nothing can be known from observation , since the existence of the human race has occupied comparatively but a point in duration , while these vicissitudes embrace myriads of ages . The proof is simple and conclusive .
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It was long known by observation that five times the mean motion of Saturn is nearly equal to twice that of Jupiter ; a relation which the sagacity of La Place perceived to be the cause of a periodic irregularity in the mean motion of ...
It was long known by observation that five times the mean motion of Saturn is nearly equal to twice that of Jupiter ; a relation which the sagacity of La Place perceived to be the cause of a periodic irregularity in the mean motion of ...
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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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