 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 738 páginas
...the stars, at the end of the period of the moon's nodes, appeared in the same places, with respect to the equator, as they ought to have done, if the earth's axis had retained the same inclination to an invariable plane. phenomena that I had observed, and at the same time mention... | |
 | Samuel Vince - 1814 - 628 páginas
...because the stars at the end of the period of the moon's node, appeared in the same places with respect to the equator, as they ought to have done, if the earth's axis had retained the same inclination to an invariable plane. Dr. BRADLEY, in his observation upon » TJrsce Mnjoris, in... | |
 | Augustus Young - 1846 - 304 páginas
...because the stars at the end of the period of the moon's node, appeared in the same places with respect to the equator, as they ought to have done, if the earth's axis had retained the same inclination to an invariable plane," and finally the whole nutation is fixed at 19". And again,... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 378 páginas
...the stars, at the end of the period of the moon's nodes, appeared in the same places, with respect to the equator, as they ought to have done, if the earth's axis had retained the same inclination to an invariable plane."3 FRENCH ASTRONOMERS Meanwhile, astronomers across the channel... | |
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... gradual diminution of the obliquity of the ecliptic, it does not arise only from an alteration in the position of the earth's axis, but rather from some change in the plane of the ecliptic itself; because the stars, at the end of the period of the... 