Outlines of AstronomyLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1851 - 661 pages |
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... Moon . Its sidereal period . Its apparent diameter . Its parallax , distance , and real diameter . First approximation to its orbit . An ellipse about the Earth in the focus . Its excentricity and inclination . Motion of its nodes and ...
... Moon . Its sidereal period . Its apparent diameter . Its parallax , distance , and real diameter . First approximation to its orbit . An ellipse about the Earth in the focus . Its excentricity and inclination . Motion of its nodes and ...
Page xiii
... Moon . Its mountains and other superficial features . Indications of former volcanic activity . Its atmosphere . Climate . Radiation of heat from its surface . Rotation on its own axis . Libration . Appearance of the Earth from it ...
... Moon . Its mountains and other superficial features . Indications of former volcanic activity . Its atmosphere . Climate . Radiation of heat from its surface . Rotation on its own axis . Libration . Appearance of the Earth from it ...
Page xiv
... Moon's nodes . Change of inclination . Conditions of its increase and diminu- tion . Average effect in a whole revolution . Compensation in a com- plete revolution of the nodes . Lagrange's theorem of the stability of the inclinations ...
... Moon's nodes . Change of inclination . Conditions of its increase and diminu- tion . Average effect in a whole revolution . Compensation in a com- plete revolution of the nodes . Lagrange's theorem of the stability of the inclinations ...
Page xv
... Moon . Her secular acceleration . Lunar inequalities due to the action of Venus . Effect of the sphe- roidal figure of the Earth and other planets on the motions of their satellites . Of the tides . Masses of disturbing bodies deducible ...
... Moon . Her secular acceleration . Lunar inequalities due to the action of Venus . Effect of the sphe- roidal figure of the Earth and other planets on the motions of their satellites . Of the tides . Masses of disturbing bodies deducible ...
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... moon and stars also set and rise again in all points of the visible horizon . The conclusion is plain : the earth cannot extend indefinitely in depth downwards , nor indefinitely in surface laterally ; it must have not only bounds in a ...
... moon and stars also set and rise again in all points of the visible horizon . The conclusion is plain : the earth cannot extend indefinitely in depth downwards , nor indefinitely in surface laterally ; it must have not only bounds in a ...
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