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... DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 33 46 TATION 51 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS HALLEY , EULER , LA ...
... DISCOVERY OF THE TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 33 46 TATION 51 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS HALLEY , EULER , LA ...
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... discovery , and , by recognising the different points of view of the different ages , to give due credit even to the ancients . No one can expect , in a history of astronomy of limited size , to find a treatise on practical " or on ...
... discovery , and , by recognising the different points of view of the different ages , to give due credit even to the ancients . No one can expect , in a history of astronomy of limited size , to find a treatise on practical " or on ...
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... discovery opens up , it may be , boundless oceans for investigation , for wonder , and for admiration , the great astronomers , refusing to accept mere hypotheses as true , have founded upon these discoveries a science as exact in its ...
... discovery opens up , it may be , boundless oceans for investigation , for wonder , and for admiration , the great astronomers , refusing to accept mere hypotheses as true , have founded upon these discoveries a science as exact in its ...
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... discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon in the seventh year of Cambyses , on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month Tammuz . " Ptolemy , in the Almagest ...
... discovery a few years ago by Father Strassmeier of a Babylonian tablet recording a partial lunar eclipse at Babylon in the seventh year of Cambyses , on the fourteenth day of the Jewish month Tammuz . " Ptolemy , in the Almagest ...
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... discovered the acceleration of the moon's mean motion . This was conclusively estab- lished , but could not be explained by the Newtonian theory for quite a long time . ] He determined the plane of the moon's orbit and its inclination ...
... discovered the acceleration of the moon's mean motion . This was conclusively estab- lished , but could not be explained by the Newtonian theory for quite a long time . ] He determined the plane of the moon's orbit and its inclination ...
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