Theory of the Moon's Motion

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Lippincott, 1875 - Lunar theory - 44 pages

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Page v - 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 v - The squares of the times of revolution of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun.
Page vii - The problem of determining the motion of the Moon...

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