 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1893 - 908 pages
...Reserved. JEWTON & CO.'S NEW TOP. Illustrates the Stability due to rotation, in a very novel way. Also the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis. The Steel Axis follows all the Curves and Angles of any Geometrical Figure. The Top complete, with... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1904 - 878 pages
...the circumference of an infinitely distant sphere, and the discoveries of the rotation of the earth, the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis were made on this hypothesis. The fixity of the positions of the stars in the sky has served as the... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1847 - 562 pages
...the confirmation of the Newtonian system. The work had been preceded in J 749, by his " Researches on the Precession of the Equinoxes," and the " Nutation of the Earth's Axis." His " Opuscles Mathematiques," extending to eight tomes in quarto, and embracing a large collection... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1827 - 456 pages
...example above, find the error produced in the result by an error of 11" in the altitude. 14. Explain the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the Earth's axis, without analogical reference to the disturhances produced by the Sun in the Moon's motion: and point... | |
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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. 
