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... seems to move for a time in a retrograde direc- tion . The attempts of Ptolemy and others of his time to explain the retrograde motion in this way were only approximate . Let us suppose each planet to have a bar with one end centered at ...
... seems to move for a time in a retrograde direc- tion . The attempts of Ptolemy and others of his time to explain the retrograde motion in this way were only approximate . Let us suppose each planet to have a bar with one end centered at ...
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... seems to have discovered the moon's variation . " Meanwhile the Moors were leaders of science in the west , and Arzachel of Toledo improved the solar tables very much . Ulugh Begh , grandson of the great Tamerlane the Tartar , built a ...
... seems to have discovered the moon's variation . " Meanwhile the Moors were leaders of science in the west , and Arzachel of Toledo improved the solar tables very much . Ulugh Begh , grandson of the great Tamerlane the Tartar , built a ...
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... seem so much brighter in opposition . For Mars would then be a great deal nearer to the earth than at other times . It would also explain the retrograde motion of planets when in opposi- tion . We must here notice that at this stage ...
... seem so much brighter in opposition . For Mars would then be a great deal nearer to the earth than at other times . It would also explain the retrograde motion of planets when in opposi- tion . We must here notice that at this stage ...
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... seem to move when the earth changes its position a test which failed completely with the rough means of observation then available . The radical defect of all solar systems previous to the time of Kepler ( 1609 ) A.D. ) was the slavish ...
... seem to move when the earth changes its position a test which failed completely with the rough means of observation then available . The radical defect of all solar systems previous to the time of Kepler ( 1609 ) A.D. ) was the slavish ...
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... seems unfair , and on reading over what has been written about him at different times it will be noticed that the astronomers those who have evidently read his great book are very cautious in the words with The Geometrical Period 37.
... seems unfair , and on reading over what has been written about him at different times it will be noticed that the astronomers those who have evidently read his great book are very cautious in the words with The Geometrical Period 37.
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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.