| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...beneath tne moon; but as during our daily revolution the moon advances in her orbit, the earth must make more than a complete rotation in order to bring the same meridian opposite the moon : we are three-quarters of an hour in overtaking her. The tides, therefore, are retarded... | |
| Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), Thomas P. Jones - Physics - 1826 - 286 pages
...beneath the moon; but as during our daily revolution, the moon advances in her orbit, the earth must make more than a complete rotation, in order to bring the same meridian opposite the moon: we are three-quarters of an hour in overtaking her. The tides, therefore, are retarded,... | |
| 1832 - 650 pages
...the moon ; but as during our daily révolution the moon advances in her orbit, the earth must make more than a complete rotation in order to bring the same meridian opposite the moon : we are three-quarters of an hour in overtaking her. The tides, therefore, are retarded,... | |
| Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...beneath the moon ; but as during our daily revolution the moon advances in her orbit, the earth must make more than a complete rotation in order to bring the same meridian opposite the moon : we are three-quarters of an hour in overtaking her. The tides, therefore, are retarded,... | |
| Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...beneath the moon ; but as during our daily revolution the moon advances in her orbit, the earth must make more than a complete rotation in order to bring the same meridian opposite the moon : we are three-quarters of an hour in overtaking her. The tides, therefore, are retarded,... | |
| Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...the moon; but as, during our daily revolution, the moon advances in her orbit, the earth must make more than a complete rotation in order to bring the same meridian opposite the moon, we are three quarters of an hour in overtaking her. The tides, therefore, are retarded... | |
| George Grant - Knowledge and learning - 1849 - 328 pages
...beneath the moon ; but as during our daily revolution the moon advances in her orbit, the earth must make more than a complete rotation, in order to bring the same meridian opposite the moon : we are three-quarters of an hour in overtaking her. The tides, therefore, are retarded,... | |
| Janet Taylor - Nautical astronomy - 1851 - 674 pages
...only a diurnal without an annual motion, but as the earth, while turning once round its axis, advances almost a degree eastward in its orbit, if the sun...as much in proportion of another rotation as it has advanced in its orbit during that time, namely, about one 365th. part at a mean rate, consequently... | |
| 1861 - 804 pages
...the moon ; but as, during our daily revolution, the moon advances in her orbit, the earth must make more than a complete rotation in order to bring the same meridian opposite the moon ; we are about three-quarters of an hour in overtaking her. The tides, therefore,... | |
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