...combine this theory of Newton with the hypothesis of the elliptical form of the earth, we shall find that the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis are sufficiently accounted for. Other arguments indeed, in favour of the elliptical form, may be derived...

...greater number df observations differ but little from -rr--/ which the computation from the phenomena of the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, gives for the maximum limit of the compression. 2. Prom the various results of careful admeasurements...

...altitudes; the refraction of light while passing through the atmosphere; the attraction of mountains; the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis ; the irregular figure and balancing of Saturn's ring, and the dependence of that balancing upon that...

...complete discussion of this important subject, we refer the reader to the article Tim:. SECT. IX. Of the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis. 406 Precession Jt now remains to consider the precession of the equinoctial' Ч1""ПОс1'а' P°'ntsiw't'1...

...at their surfaces ; the tides ; the oscillations of the atmosphere ; the attractions of mountains ; the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis; the irregular figure and the balancing of Saturn's ring, and the dependance of that balancing upon...

...of the .methods are considered. It is also a singular deduction from theory, that the phenomena of the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, are exactly what they would be if die earth was an oblate spheroid of revolution. The whole series...

...acted on also by other bodies. Newton explained and determined part of these deviations ; for instance, the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis. (See these articles.) But many problems which require the infinitesimal calculus for their solution,...

...acted on also by other bodies. Newton explained and determined part of these deviations; for instance, the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis. (See these articles.) But many problems which require the infinitesimal calculus for their solution,...

...of the problem of vibrating chords, and the motion of a column of air ; in 1 749 he did the same for the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, the latter of which had been just discovered by Bradley. In 1752 he published his Kssay on the Resistance...

...of the problem of vibrating chords, and the motion of a column of air ; in 1 749 he did the same for the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, the latter of which had been just discovered by Bradley. In 1752 he published his Essay on the Resistance...