| Royal Astronomical Society - 1831 - 422 pages
...honorary reward, the Council feel assured, that in awarding it to Professor Airy, for his paper " On the inequality of long period in the motions of the Earth and Venus," they will receive the concurrence and approbation of this meeting, and be fully justified in the opinion... | |
| 1831 - 416 pages
...honorary reward, the Council feel assured, that in awarding it to Professor Airy, for his paper " On the inequality of long period in the motions of the Earth and Venus," they will receive the concurrence and approbation of this meeting, and be fully justified in the opinion... | |
| 1832 - 868 pages
...29. — George Rennie, Esq., Vice President, in the chair. — A Report upon Professor Airy's paper ' On an inequality of long period in the Motions of the Earth and Venus,' by John William Lubbock, Esq. and Professor Whewell, was read. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. March 26. —... | |
| 1832 - 618 pages
...SOCIETY. March SB. George Rennie, esq. VP in the chair. — Read the report of a paper, " On an equality of long period in the motions of the Earth and Venus ; " by GB Airy, esq. I'lumian Professor at Cambridge. Professor Airy, on revising, in the year 1827, at the... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1837 - 554 pages
...and Treasurer RS, on Professor Airy's Paper, read before the Royal Society on November 24, 1831, and entitled, " On an Inequality of Long Period in the Motions of the Earth and Venus," was read. Report. The object of this memoir is similar to that of Laplace's celebrated investigation... | |
| Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) - 1892 - 570 pages
...Society ; the one, perhaps, which attracted most attention amongst astronomers being that on " The Inequality of long Period in the Motions of the Earth and Venus." His connection with the Royal Astronomical Society was very close, nearly all his Papers on purely... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1893 - 388 pages
...which now engaged his attention. In 1831 he presented to the Royal Society his celebrated memoir " On an Inequality of Long Period in the Motions of the Earth and Venus," which, as Airy himself said, "contains the first specific improvement in the solar tables made in this... | |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences - 1893 - 504 pages
...investigations which had previously occupied him. Among these should be specially mentioned the memoir on the inequality of long period in the motions of the Earth and Venus, for which the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society was awarded to him in 1832. In 183.5 Airy... | |
| 1852 - 1010 pages
...transparent substances of different refractive power. 4to. Cambridge 1832. br. 3 fr. 50 c. 322. — — . 5 fr. CARNOT (S. V — Reflexions 4fo. London 1832. br. 5 fr. 323. — — On the Mass of Jupiter, as determined from the Observation... | |
| Johns Hopkins University. Peabody Institute - 1863 - 238 pages
...Cambridge, 1826. 8vo " Observations on the total -eclipse of '1842, July 7th. 1 London. 4to Airy, GB On an Inequality of Long Period in the motions of the Earth and Venus. London, 1831. 4to " Progress of Astronomy in the present century. London. 8vo Arago, DF Oenvres complètes,... | |
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