 | 1819 - 512 pages
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 | 1869 - 1022 pages
...force which it balances, a second depending on the ellipticity of our planet, and serving to produce the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, while the third, much smaller in magnitude, depends on the attraction of the tidal waters on the moon.... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie, Ivor Grattan-Guinness - 2000 - 338 pages
...force on the surface of homogeneous spheroids in equilibrium 2. The motion of the tides, together with the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis 3. The oscillations of the atmosphere caused by the gravitational action of the sun and the moon. The... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 2002 - 406 pages
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D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. 
