 | Thomas Simpson - Calculus - 1805 - 494 pages
...the Ellipfe. By this method the refult, even in the orbit of Mercury, may be found within a fecond of the truth, and that without repeating the operation....obferved places of a (new) comet are found to differ fcnfibly from thof'e computed on the hypothefis of a parabolic orbit. The fourth is an Attempt to fhew,... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 722 pages
...may be found within a second of the truth, and that without repeating the operation. The third shows the Manner of transferring the Motion of a Comet from...parabolic Orbit, to an elliptic One ; being of great use, when the obberved place« of a (new) comet are found to differ sensibly from those computed on... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...may be found within a Second of the Truth, and that without repeating the Operation. The third shows the Manner of transferring the Motion of a Comet from...parabolic Orbit, to an elliptic one ; being of great Use, when the observed Places of a new Comet are found to differ sensibly from those computed on the... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 384 pages
...may be found within a second of the truth, and that without repeating the operation. The third shows the Manner of transferring the Motion of a Comet from...parabolic Orbit to an elliptic one ; being of great use, when 1 1 1<- observed places of a (new) comet are found to differ sensibly from those computed... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 382 pages
...may be found within a second of the truth, and that without repeating the operation. The third shows the Manner of transferring the Motion of a Comet from...parabolic Orbit to an elliptic one; being of great use, when the observed places of a (new) comet are found to differ sensibly from those computed on... | |
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Ward's circular Hypothesis, by Means of certain Equations applied to the Motion about the upper Focus of the Ellipse. By this Method the Result, even... 