The Balance of Physics, the Square of the Circle, and the Earth's True Solar and Lunar Distances, Discovered and Demonstrated, and by Astronomical Facts Seen in the Eclipses

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S.W. Partridge & Company, 1885 - 246 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 241 - For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.
Pàgina 157 - Thus saith the Lord, which giveth the sun for a light by day, and the ordinances of the moon and of the stars, for a light by night, which divideth the sea when the waves thereof roar ; the Lord of Hosts is his name.
Pàgina 241 - Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature : For by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers, all things were created by him and for him : And he is before all things, and by him all things consist...
Pàgina 149 - The nearer the moon is to the periods of full or change, the greater is her velocity ; and the nearer to the quadratures, or the periods of half moon, the slower she moves. When the earth is in its perihelion, or nearest the sun, the periodical time of the moon is the greatest. The earth is at its perihelion in winter, and, consequently, at that time the moon will describe the largest circle about the earth, and her periodical time will be the longest ; but when the earth is in its aphelion, or farthest...
Pàgina 143 - Here, we may observe, how certainly the forces to do it must be set to act from the lunar centre, as from thence, this phenomenon with the spectator at the earth's would not appear so great. Again, " Helve vius discovered a similar libration in longitude, which he ascribed to the displacement of the centre of the orbit from the centre of motion, but Newton first gave a clear explanation of this phenomenon in a letter addressed to Mercator, which appeared in the work on Astronomy published by that...
Pàgina 145 - ... earth, would exceed the diameter at right angles to it by 186 feet. He discovered in this elongation of the moon, the cause why she always turns the same side toward the earth ; for he remarked that in any other position the action of the earth would not maintain her equilibrium, but would instantly draw her back, until the elongated axis coincided in direction * with the line forming the earth and the moon. " Now, in consequence of the inequalities of the moon in longitude, the elongated axis...
Pàgina 145 - Proceeding upon the supposition that she was originally in a fluid state, he concluded that the terrestrial attraction would draw her into the form of a spheroid, the longer axis of which, when produced, would pass through the earth's centre. Comparing this phenomenon with the tidal spheroid, occasioned by the action of the moon upon the earth, he found that the diameter of the lunar spheroid, which is directed towards the earth, would exceed the diameter at right angles to it by 186 feet. He discovered...
Pàgina 147 - Laplace, at a later period, examined the effect which might be produced on the motion of the earth's axis by the fluid state of the ocean ; and he was conducted to the following conclusion : — The motion of the earth's axis is the same as if the whole sea formed a solid mass adhering to the surface.
Pàgina 144 - Newton explained the librations of latitude which arise in consequence of the moon's axis of rotation being inclined to her orbit. This phenomenon, like the two already mentioned, is purely optical.

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