History of Physical Astronomy: From the Earliest Ages to the Middle of the 19th Century. Comprehending a Detailed Account of the Establishment of the Theory of Gravitation by Newton, and Its Development by His Successors; with an Exposition of the Progress of Research on All the Other Subjects of Celestial Physics |
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... Uranus . This may perhaps be regarded as the most astonishing conquest which the human mind has ever achieved in unfolding the arrangements of the material world . Nor does it tend to diminish our admiration of this great discovery ...
... Uranus . This may perhaps be regarded as the most astonishing conquest which the human mind has ever achieved in unfolding the arrangements of the material world . Nor does it tend to diminish our admiration of this great discovery ...
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... Uranus . - Its anomalous Irregularities . -Discovery of an Exterior Planet by means of them . - Theory of the Smaller Planets . — Hansen . — Lubbock . - Theory of Comets . - Researches on the Motion of Encke's Comet . - Hypothesis of a ...
... Uranus . - Its anomalous Irregularities . -Discovery of an Exterior Planet by means of them . - Theory of the Smaller Planets . — Hansen . — Lubbock . - Theory of Comets . - Researches on the Motion of Encke's Comet . - Hypothesis of a ...
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... Uranus . - Re- sults obtained by him . - Researches of the French Astronomers on the Theory of Uranus . - Eugene Bouvard . - Le Verrier . - Account of his Researches . - Near Agreement of his Results with those of Adams . - Steps taken ...
... Uranus . - Re- sults obtained by him . - Researches of the French Astronomers on the Theory of Uranus . - Eugene Bouvard . - Le Verrier . - Account of his Researches . - Near Agreement of his Results with those of Adams . - Steps taken ...
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... Uranus ; the ninth , of the theory of comets ; the tenth , of the theory of refraction and other points relative to the system of the world . In the first book of the fifth volume or the eleventh of the whole work , Laplace considers ...
... Uranus ; the ninth , of the theory of comets ; the tenth , of the theory of refraction and other points relative to the system of the world . In the first book of the fifth volume or the eleventh of the whole work , Laplace considers ...
Page 115
... Uranus by Saturn § . We have mentioned in the preceding note that R contains a series of terms of the Now the lowest terms which involve any form P cos ( ( ( in in ' ) t + s --- is ' + Q ૨ ) . given values of ii ' are of the order i ...
... Uranus by Saturn § . We have mentioned in the preceding note that R contains a series of terms of the Now the lowest terms which involve any form P cos ( ( ( in in ' ) t + s --- is ' + Q ૨ ) . given values of ii ' are of the order i ...
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