 | Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...the analytical solutions of the problem of vibrating chords, and the motion of a column of air; of the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, the phenomenon itself having been recently observed by Bradley. In 1752 he completed his researches... | |
 | 1838 - 530 pages
...the analytical solutions of the problem of vibrating chords, and the motion of a column of air; of the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, the phenomenon itself having been recently observed by Bradley. In 1752 he completed his researches... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - 1839 - 304 pages
...order to obtain its true place, are called Equations. Thus the elliptical form of the earth's orbit, the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, severally affect the place of the sun in his apparent orbit, for which equations are applied. In a... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1842 - 674 pages
...calculate the principal moments of inertia of the Earth, which were required in Art. 470, in calculating the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis. PROP. To calculate the principal moments of inertia of the Earth, supposing it to consist of layers... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1845 - 514 pages
...phenomenon itself can be genetically explained. Even after we have allowed for all that belongs to the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, as consequences of the influence of the sun and moon upon the spheroidal figure of our planet, to the... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 pages
...the difficulty in 1749. The other great problem, the investigation of which occupied D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop, of the third book, had... | |
 | Augustus Young - 1846 - 304 pages
...motion of light, and in which it is said that Dr. Bradley was the discoverer of the inequalities of the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, arising from the attraction of the moon in different situations of its nodes ; and from the length... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 318 pages
...the difficulty in 1749. The other great problem, the investigation of which occupied D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop. of the third book, had... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 pages
...is mere conjecture. From the formulae which determine the difference of the consecutive tides, it is proved that the precession of the equinoxes, and the...the earth. Oscillations of the third kind are the semdiurnal tides so remarkable on our coasts. They are occasioned by the combined action of the sun... | |
 | James Roche - 1851 - 624 pages
...the confirmation of the Newtonian system. The work had been preceded in 1749, by his " Researches on the Precession of the Equinoxes," and the " Nutation of the Earth's Axis." His " Opuscules Mathematiques," extending to eight tomes in quarto, and embracing a large collection... | |
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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. 
