 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1846 - 566 sider
...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... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 sider
...conjecture. From the formulae which determine the difference of the consecutive tides, it is proved that the precession of the equinoxes, and the nutation of the earth's axis, are the same as if the sea formed one solid mass with the earth. Oscillations of the third kind are... | |
 | James Roche - 1851 - 624 sider
...the confirmation of the Newtonian system. The work had been preceded in 1749, by his " Researches on the Precession of the Equinoxes," and the " Nutation of the Earth's Axis." His " Opuscules Mathematiques," extending to eight tomes in quarto, and embracing a large collection... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 sider
...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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 526 sider
...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... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1855 - 520 sider
...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... | |
 | 1863 - 530 sider
...principal object of the present paper, will require greater detail in their treatment. They are called the Precession of the Equinoxes, and the Nutation of the Earth's Axis. Unlike refraction, which is a variable element, and aberration, which is constant in quantity, and... | |
 | 1864 - 968 sider
...of the tidal wave may quantitatively be determined in the same manner as that employed in computing the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis. The varied distribution of land and water, the unequal and unknown depth of the ocean, and the as yet... | |
 | 1864 - 474 sider
...of the tidal wave may quantitatively be determined in the same manner as that employed in computing the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis. The varied distribution of land and water, the unequal and unknown depth of the ocean, and the as yet... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 sider
...of the tidal wave may quantitatively be determined in the same manner as that employed in computing the precession of the equinoxes and the nutation of the earth's axis. The varied distribution of land and water, the unequal and unknown depth of the ocean, and the as yet... | |
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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. 
