Outlines of AstronomyLongman, Brown, Green, Longmans, 1851 - 661 pages |
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... motion . Interpretation of the constant part of these ine- qualities . Annual ... motions of their satellites . Of the tides . Masses of disturbing bodies ... Proper motion of the stars . Partly accounted for by a real motion of the ...
... motion . Interpretation of the constant part of these ine- qualities . Annual ... motions of their satellites . Of the tides . Masses of disturbing bodies ... Proper motion of the stars . Partly accounted for by a real motion of the ...
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... motions of the heavenly bodies . We have no reason to believe , from history , that any sensible . change has taken ... motion of the heavenly bodies offers to our notice , it will be proper to de- scribe , with precision , in what that ...
... motions of the heavenly bodies . We have no reason to believe , from history , that any sensible . change has taken ... motion of the heavenly bodies offers to our notice , it will be proper to de- scribe , with precision , in what that ...
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... proper motions of the stars . But these are so excessively slow , that their accumulated amount ( even in those stars for which they are greatest ) has been insufficient , in the whole duration of astronomical history , to produce any ...
... proper motions of the stars . But these are so excessively slow , that their accumulated amount ( even in those stars for which they are greatest ) has been insufficient , in the whole duration of astronomical history , to produce any ...
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... proper motions movements of a parallactic kind , due to our own change of place , in virtue of the orbitual motion of the earth about the sun . ( 462. ) If we abandon the earth as a center of the planetary motions , it cannot admit of a ...
... proper motions movements of a parallactic kind , due to our own change of place , in virtue of the orbitual motion of the earth about the sun . ( 462. ) If we abandon the earth as a center of the planetary motions , it cannot admit of a ...
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... motion in that plane . The small inclination , generally speaking , of the orbits of the ... motions as performed in one plane . ( 653. ) In considering the changes ... proper in the first instance to explain the conventions under which ...
... motion in that plane . The small inclination , generally speaking , of the orbits of the ... motions as performed in one plane . ( 653. ) In considering the changes ... proper in the first instance to explain the conventions under which ...
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