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... orbits are concerned , Kepler's three laws ( B , C , D ) were identical with Newton's law of gravitation ( A ) . No one recognises more than the mathe- matical astronomer this feebleness of the human intellect , and no one is more ...
... orbits are concerned , Kepler's three laws ( B , C , D ) were identical with Newton's law of gravitation ( A ) . No one recognises more than the mathe- matical astronomer this feebleness of the human intellect , and no one is more ...
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... for the secular acceleration of the moon's longi- tude and the node of her orbit than any that could be R. A. S. Monthly Notices , Sup .; 1905 . Containing record of solar eclipse , 1062 B.C. , used THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD 3.
... for the secular acceleration of the moon's longi- tude and the node of her orbit than any that could be R. A. S. Monthly Notices , Sup .; 1905 . Containing record of solar eclipse , 1062 B.C. , used THE GEOMETRICAL PERIOD 3.
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... orbit ( the obliquity of the ecliptic ) has been diminishing slowly since prehistoric times ; and this fact has been confirmed by Egyptian and Chinese observations on the length of the shadow of a vertical pillar , made thousands of ...
... orbit ( the obliquity of the ecliptic ) has been diminishing slowly since prehistoric times ; and this fact has been confirmed by Egyptian and Chinese observations on the length of the shadow of a vertical pillar , made thousands of ...
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... orbit revolves just once round the pole of the ecliptic , and for this reason the eclipses in one cycle are repeated with very slight modification in the next cycle , and so on for many centuries . It may be that the neglect of their ...
... orbit revolves just once round the pole of the ecliptic , and for this reason the eclipses in one cycle are repeated with very slight modification in the next cycle , and so on for many centuries . It may be that the neglect of their ...
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... orbit , and apparently made out the diameter correctly as half a degree . He left nothing in writing . His successors , Anaximander ( 610-547 B.C. ) and Anaximenes ( 550-475 B.C. ) , held absurd notions about the sun , moon , and stars ...
... orbit , and apparently made out the diameter correctly as half a degree . He left nothing in writing . His successors , Anaximander ( 610-547 B.C. ) and Anaximenes ( 550-475 B.C. ) , held absurd notions about the sun , moon , and stars ...
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