| William Whewell - 1833 - 416 páginas
...is a solitary example, so far as we know, of such an appendage to a planet. These circular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primary planets, are all kept going by the attraction of the respective central bodies, which restrains... | |
| William Whewell - 1833 - 298 páginas
...is a solitary example, so far as we know, of such an appendage to a planet. These circular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primary planets, are all kept going by the attraction of the respective central bodies, which restrains... | |
| 1834 - 438 páginas
...the planets from the sun and of the satellites from their primaries, and the average or mean times of revolution of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries. By the mean time of revolution, we mean the average of a large number of revolutions, one... | |
| 1836 - 566 páginas
...is a solitary example, so far as we know, of such an appendage to a planet. These circular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primary planets, are all kept going by the attraction of the respective central bodies, which restrains... | |
| 1837 - 538 páginas
...BY JAMES a! Astronomical Society.) The following tables contain the number of years or revolutions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries during the above period, with the length of the year for each planet, also the period occupied... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - 1843 - 604 páginas
...universal attraction into its consequences, we shall find that it not only produces the regular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, but that it must also occasion irregularitiet resulting from the action of these bodies... | |
| David Brewster - 1855 - 518 páginas
...of Mathematics at Pisa, in his work on the theory of Jupiter's Satellites.2 He considers the motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, as produced by some virtue residing in the central body. In speaking of the motion of bodies... | |
| George Combe - 1857 - 348 páginas
...produce a perpetual motion ; but the Supernatural Power appears to have found no difficulty in doing so. The revolution of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their principal planets, are examples in point. We comprehend the laws which govern these evolutions, and... | |
| 1868 - 1236 páginas
...same force which brings an apple to the ground also prevents the moon from parting company with ns. Newton was, therefore, authorised to assert that the...ENGLISH GENTLEMAN'S OWN PROFESSION. THE belief, once extant, that no person with a claim to be regarded as nobly born, could possibly follow any other profession... | |
| 1868 - 854 páginas
...AgluoO'RPIMENT. See ABSESIU O'RRERY, a machine constructed for the purpose of exhibiting the motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, which was in high repute during the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, though now... | |
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