 | John Henry Pratt - Celestial mechanics - 1836 - 653 pages
...impulsive forces. The subject of the first of these Chapters leads to the demonstration and calculation of the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis: the formulas for these are prepared for numerical calculation; the reduction to numbers will be found... | |
 | Thomas Thomson - Geology - 1836 - 588 pages
...with the mathematical constitution of the globe, and therefore erroneous. Laplace was of opinion, that the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, indicate a gradual increase of specific gravity from the surface to the centre. This is the way that... | |
 | Arthur Thomas Malkin - 1838 - 538 pages
...discoveries the analytical solutions of the problem of vibrating chords, and the motion of a column of air; of the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, the phenomenon itself having been recently observed by Bradley. In 1752 he completed his researches... | |
 | Henry Malden - 1838 - 528 pages
...discoveries the analytical solutions of the problem of vibrating chords, and the motion of a column of air; of the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, the phenomenon itself having been recently observed by Bradley. In 1752 he completed his researches... | |
 | Thomas Kerigan - Nautical astronomy - 1838 - 804 pages
...the equatorial radius : and this is found to correspond with the phenomena which should arise from the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis. — And since it thus appears that the equatorial radius of the earth is to the polar semi-axis in... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1839 - 304 pages
...order to obtain its true place, are called Equations. Thus the elliptical form of the earth's orbit, the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, severally affect the place of the sun in his apparent orbit, for which equations are applied. In a... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - Architecture - 1842 - 674 pages
...This subject introduces several interesting and important propositions: among others, the calculations of the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis; the formula for Precession is prepared for numerical calculation; the reduction to numbers will be... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Astronomy - 1845 - 514 pages
...phenomenon itself can be genetically explained. Even after we have allowed for all that belongs to the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis, as consequences of the influence of the sun and moon upon the spheroidal figure of our planet, to the... | |
 | Augustus Young - Circle-squaring - 1846 - 304 pages
...progressive motion of light, and in which it is said that Dr. Bradley was the discoverer of the inequalities of the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, arising from the attraction of the moon in different situations of its nodes ; and from the length... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - English literature - 1846 - 318 pages
...the difficulty in 1749. The other great problem, the investigation of which occupied D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton, in the xxxix. prop. of the third book, had... | |
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D'Alembert, was the Precession of the equinoxes and the Nutation of the earth's axis, according to the theory of gravitation. 
