 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1809 - 738 páginas
...inclination to diminish regularly; if this phenomenon depended on such a cause, and amounted to 18" in Q years, the obliquity of the ecliptic would, at that rate, alter a whole minute in SO years; which is much faster than any observations, before made, would allow. I had reason therefore... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 400 páginas
...have supposed that inclination to diminish regularly ; if this phenomenon depended upon such a cause, and amounted to 1 8" in nine years, the obliquity...alter a whole minute in thirty years; which is much faster than any observations, before made, would allow. I had reason, therefore, to think that some... | |
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THAT inclination to diminish regularly; if this phenomenon depended upon such a cause, and amounted to 1 8" in nine years, the obliquity of the ecliptic would, at that rate, alter a whole minute in thirty years; which is much faster than any observations,... 