The Planetary and Stellar Worlds: A Popular Exposition of the Great Discoveries and Theories of Modern Astronomy. In a Series of Ten LecturesOakley & Mason, 1868 - 320 páginas |
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... computed motion of the moon's perigee , 149. Fi- nally removed by Clairault , 150. Changes in the earth's figure occasioned by its rotation , 153. The form of equilibrium reached , 155. The precession of the equinoxes caused by the ...
... computed motion of the moon's perigee , 149. Fi- nally removed by Clairault , 150. Changes in the earth's figure occasioned by its rotation , 153. The form of equilibrium reached , 155. The precession of the equinoxes caused by the ...
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... computed , their complex wanderings made clear , until the mind , majestic in its strength , has mounted step by step up the rocky height of its self - built pyramid , from whose star- crowned summit it looks out upon the grandeur of ...
... computed , their complex wanderings made clear , until the mind , majestic in its strength , has mounted step by step up the rocky height of its self - built pyramid , from whose star- crowned summit it looks out upon the grandeur of ...
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... computed time of her passage across the sun's track . Here he makes his stand , and on the day of the occurrence of that new moon , he announ- ces to the startled inhabitants of the world , that the sun shall expire in dark eclipse ...
... computed time of her passage across the sun's track . Here he makes his stand , and on the day of the occurrence of that new moon , he announ- ces to the startled inhabitants of the world , that the sun shall expire in dark eclipse ...
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... compute the probability of such a coincidence resulting by accident , we shall find the chances mil- lions to one against it . We are therefore forced to the conclusion , that the planets were discovered , and the seven days of the week ...
... compute the probability of such a coincidence resulting by accident , we shall find the chances mil- lions to one against it . We are therefore forced to the conclusion , that the planets were discovered , and the seven days of the week ...
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... compute tables of the planetary motions , from which their places could be predicted with such precision , that the error , if any existed , es- caped detection by the rude instruments then in use . While the explanation of the ...
... compute tables of the planetary motions , from which their places could be predicted with such precision , that the error , if any existed , es- caped detection by the rude instruments then in use . While the explanation of the ...
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