...orbit, has a slow retrograde conical motion. The cause is shown, by physical astronomy, to arise from the attraction of the Sun and Moon on the excess of matter at the equatorial parts of the Earth. 6. It has already been observed that the astronomical days are...

...remain nearly stationary with respect to the horizon. This motion of the celestial pole arises from the attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter at the equatorial parts of the earth. ARGUMENT. For part 2d of Aber, ¡n Declin. 0' long. + 4t' Declin....

...retrograde conical motion. The cause of this motion is shewn, by physical astronomy, to arise from the attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter at the equatoreal parts of the earth. By physical astronomy we are also enabled to account for a small...

...by La Place, in his Mcchanique Celeste, on the theory of gravitation being produced by the effect of the attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter at the earth's equator, which produces a slow angular motion at the plane of the equator in a contrary...

...plane of the hori* zon of a. place and the 'axis of the earth or the plane of the equator reinainff constant. Likewise therefore the pole and the equator...and at the same time a periodical motion, depending 011 the places of the sun and moon and on tinposition of the moon's nodes viz. of the points in which...

...earth, and makes the daily motion of the equinoxes less than it would otherwise be. SECTION XCIX. 1. IF the attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter around the equator of the earth was always the same, the pole of the equator would describe the circumference...

...retrograde conical motion. The cause of this motion is shown, by physical astronomy, to arise from the attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter at the equatorial parts of the earth, arising from its spheroidal shape, by which it bulges out at...

...was computed, the value determined by Airy being -^^. As the precession of the equinoxes is due to the attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter around the earth's equator, it would seem as if the figure of the globe might be found from that phenomenon...

...was computed, the value determined by AIRY being -gfa. As the precession of the equinoxes is due to the attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter around the earth's equator, it would seem as if the figure of the globe might be found from that phenomenon...

...unproved assumption, and altogether inferior to the physical theory which ascribes the phenomenon to the attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter at the earth's equator, a theory which has the support of all the ablest living mathematicians, some...