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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... Questions relating to the planetary motions , 113 . Laws of motion ; the centrifugal force , 114. Problem presented for solution to Newton , 116. Discoveries of Descartes ; conjec tures of Kepler , 117. Measure of the moon's distance ...
... Questions relating to the planetary motions , 113 . Laws of motion ; the centrifugal force , 114. Problem presented for solution to Newton , 116. Discoveries of Descartes ; conjec tures of Kepler , 117. Measure of the moon's distance ...
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... questions answered by an examination of the moon , 161 . LECTURE VI . THE STABILITY OF THE PLANETARY SYSTEM . Rapid survey of the system , 165. General characteristics of the planets , 166. What phenomena gravitation must account for ...
... questions answered by an examination of the moon , 161 . LECTURE VI . THE STABILITY OF THE PLANETARY SYSTEM . Rapid survey of the system , 165. General characteristics of the planets , 166. What phenomena gravitation must account for ...
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... questions which the visible heavens propound . The most cursory examination of the celestial vault reveals the fact , that not one solitary object , visible to the eye , is at rest . Motion is the attribute of sun and moon and planets ...
... questions which the visible heavens propound . The most cursory examination of the celestial vault reveals the fact , that not one solitary object , visible to the eye , is at rest . Motion is the attribute of sun and moon and planets ...
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... questions which present themselves in the outset , touching the condition of the earth , on whose surface the astronomer is located , in his re searches of the heavens . Beyond the limits of the earth , a multitude of ob- jects present ...
... questions which present themselves in the outset , touching the condition of the earth , on whose surface the astronomer is located , in his re searches of the heavens . Beyond the limits of the earth , a multitude of ob- jects present ...
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... questions , a critical watch is kept on all the moving bodies . Their pathway is among the stars , and to these ever during points of light their positions are constantly referred . If be- yond the limits of the moving bodies a dark ...
... questions , a critical watch is kept on all the moving bodies . Their pathway is among the stars , and to these ever during points of light their positions are constantly referred . If be- yond the limits of the moving bodies a dark ...
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