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... line from the earth to the " excentric " was called the line of apses . A circle having this centre I was called the equant , and he supposed that a radius drawn to the sun from the excentric passes over equal arcs on the equant in ...
... line from the earth to the " excentric " was called the line of apses . A circle having this centre I was called the equant , and he supposed that a radius drawn to the sun from the excentric passes over equal arcs on the equant in ...
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... line of apses , besides the inclination and position of the plane of the planet's orbit . The only object ever aimed at in those days was to prepare tables for predicting the places of the planets . It was not a mechanical problem ...
... line of apses , besides the inclination and position of the plane of the planet's orbit . The only object ever aimed at in those days was to prepare tables for predicting the places of the planets . It was not a mechanical problem ...
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... line of apses . The ratio of CS to CA is the excentricity . The posi- tion of the planet at A E B CH is the perihelion ( nearest to the sun ) . The position of the planet at B is the aphelion ( farthest from the sun ) . The angle ASP is ...
... line of apses . The ratio of CS to CA is the excentricity . The posi- tion of the planet at A E B CH is the perihelion ( nearest to the sun ) . The position of the planet at B is the aphelion ( farthest from the sun ) . The angle ASP is ...
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... line of apses of each planet passes through the sun ; both were contradictory to the Copernican theory . He proceeds cautiously with his propositions until he arrives at his great laws , and he con- cludes his book by comparing ...
... line of apses of each planet passes through the sun ; both were contradictory to the Copernican theory . He proceeds cautiously with his propositions until he arrives at his great laws , and he con- cludes his book by comparing ...
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... line of apses , at the same time correctly assigning the disturbing force of the Isun as the cause . He discovered the errors in Jupiter's calculated place , due to what we now know as the long inequality of Jupiter and Sat- urn , and ...
... line of apses , at the same time correctly assigning the disturbing force of the Isun as the cause . He discovered the errors in Jupiter's calculated place , due to what we now know as the long inequality of Jupiter and Sat- urn , and ...
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Page 67 - that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances from each other.
Page 26 - So he sate and cunningly guided the craft with the helm, nor did sleep fall upon his eyelids, as he viewed the Pleiads and Bootes, that setteth late, and the Bear, which they likewise call the Wain, which turneth ever in one place, and keepeth watch upon Orion, and alone hath no part, in the baths of Ocean. This star, Calypso, the fair goddess, bade him to keep ever on the left as he traversed the deep.
Page 53 - The third, viz. that the squares of the periodic times are proportional to the cubes of the mean distances...
Page 79 - Wherefore if according to what we have already said it should return again about the year 1758, candid posterity will not refuse to acknowledge that this was first discovered by an Englishman.
Page 122 - ... They have not been regarded as so successful as his geometrical analysis of the observed phenomena. It is only just to add that he himself did not attach equal weight to them ; for in answer to objections urged by Lalande to his theory that the spots are depressions, Wilson wrote thus in 1783 : — ' Whether their first production and subsequent numberless changes depend upon the eructation of elastic vapours from below, or upon eddies or whirlpools commencing at the surface, or upon the dissolving...
Page 51 - He then said boldly that it was impossible that so good an observer as Tycho could be wrong by eight minutes* and added, " out of these eight minutes we will construct a new theory that will explain the motions of all the planets.