...preserving the same inclination to its 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 not equal,...

...then 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. For...

...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 direction...

...which the ecliptic coincided at the beginning of the year 1750. Now Physical Astronomy teaches, that the attraction of the sun and moon on the excess of matter near the equator of the spheroid of the earth, creates a motion of the axis of the earth and hence...

...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...

...Comet — The head. Nutation — An oscillating motion of the earth's axis, caused by the attractjon of the sun and moon on the excess of matter at the equator. Oblate Spheroid — A sphere flattened on the opposite sides. Oblique — Deviating from a...

...inclination to its orbit, has a slow 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 the equator....

...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 of them...