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LETAT
ATL 1934
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
VOLUME THE SECOND.
BOOK IV.
Of the Theory of Universal Gravitation.
CHAP. I.
Of the Principle of universal Gravitation......
CHAP. II
Of the Masses of the Planets, and of the Law of
Gravity at their Surface....
CHAP. III.
4
...
27
Of the Perturbations of the Elliptic Motion of the
Planets...
37
CHAP. IV.
Of the Perturbations of the Elliptic Motions of
the Comets
CHAP. V.
59
Of the Perturbations of the Motions of the Moon 96
CHAP. VI.
Of the Perturbations of Jupiter's Satellites.... 67
VOL. II.
b
Of the Figure of the Earth and Planets, and the
Law of Gravity at their Surface....
CHAP. VIII.
Of the Figure of Saturn's Ring.....
CHAP. IX.
114
139
....
Of the Atmosphere of the celestial Bodies....
CHAP. X.
145
Of the Ebbing and Flowing of the Sea...... 151
CHAP. XI.
Of the Stability of the Equilibrium of the Sea... 189
CHAP. XII.
Of the Oscillations of the Atmosphere....
CHAP. XIII.
.......
192
Of the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Nu-
tation of the Axis of the Earth...
CHAP. XIV.
Of the Libration of the Moon....
.... 196
217
CHAP. XV.
Reflections on the Law of Universal Gravitation 225
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BOOK V.
Abridgment of the History of Astronomy. 239
СНАР. І.
Of the Ancient Astronomy, as far as the Epoch
of the Foundation of the Alexandrine School
CHAP. II.
Of Astronomy, since the Foundation of the Alex-
andrine School, to the Arabians.....
Of the Astronomy of the Arabians, the Chinese,
241
259
Considerations relative to the System of the World,
and on the future Progress of Astronomy.... 354