 | 1833 - 1092 pages
...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... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...three. From the formulae which determine the difference of the consecutive tides, it is also proved, that the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, are the same as if the sea formed one solid mass with the earth. Oscillations of the third kind are the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 666 pages
...three. From the formulae which determine the difference of the consecutive tides, it is also proved, that the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, are the same as if the sea formed one solid mass with the earth. Oscillations of the third kind are the... | |
 | 1834 - 574 pages
...negative when the motion is towards the north pole, and positive in the other case. CHAPTER VII. On the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis. WE have already mentioned that Bradley's first notion, when he discovered the annual variation in the... | |
 | 1834 - 578 pages
...negative when the motion is towards the north pole, and positive in the other case. CHAPTER VII. On the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis. have already mentioned that Bradley's first notion, when he discovered the annual variation in the... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1836 - 672 pages
...the rotatory motion of the Earth 441 460,461. The length of the mean-day is invariable 443 462—465. The Precession of the Equinoxes and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis. The cause of these 446 466. The inclination of the Earth's axis to the lunar orbit is nearly invariable.... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - 1836 - 653 pages
...impulsive forces. The subject of the first of these Chapters leads to the demonstration and calculation of the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis: the formulas for these are prepared for numerical calculation; the reduction to numbers will be found... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Thomas Kerigan - 1838 - 804 pages
...the equatorial radius : and this is found to correspond with the phenomena which should arise from the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis. — And since it thus appears that the equatorial radius of the earth is to the polar semi-axis in... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
