 | John William Lubbock - 1834 - 456 pages
...carried further, and terms depending upon higher powers of m may be successively obtained, m being the ratio of the sun's mean motion to that of the moon. In future I shall distinguish the arguments by the numerical in* dices which are contained in the first... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1837 - 566 pages
...developed by M. Plana according to powers of the eccentricities, inclinations, &c., and also of the quantity m, which denotes the ratio of the sun's mean motion to that of the moon. The methods employed by M. Plana are otherwise similar to those of M. Damoiseau, but M. Plana's results... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1837 - 564 pages
...M. Plana according to powers of the eccentricities, inclinations, &c., and also of the quantity in, which denotes the ratio of the sun's mean motion to that of the moon. The methods employed by M. Plana are otherwise similar to those of M. Damoiseau, but M. Plana's results... | |
 | 1841 - 646 pages
...Mouvement de la Lune autour de la Terre," has not satisfactorily shown that the major axis of the moon-s orbit contains no argument of long period amongst...certain quantity m, which denotes the ratio of the sun-s mean motion to that of the moon, than the fourth ; a demons•ration of this most important proposition... | |
 | 1841 - 1316 pages
...science ; and the vast number of memoirs and works (amounting to more than 300 in number) which he pub• The publication of this memoir recalled the attention...Lubbock in the Philosophical Magazine for the present year. [LE & D. Phil. Mag. vol. xvii. p. 338.] lished during the last thirty years of his life, made... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1843 - 538 pages
...neglected, and gave rise to three of his noblest memoirs. Poisson, in his " Memoire sur le Mouvenient de la Lune autour de la Terre," has not satisfactorily...Lubbock in the Philosophical Magazine for the present year. startling character : such were his views of the constitution and finite extent of the earth's... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1843 - 552 pages
...satisfactorily shown that the major axis of the moon's orbit contains no argument of long period am<m^-t the terms which involve lower powers of a certain...demonstration of this most important proposition has been Riven by Sir John Lubbock in the Philosophical Magiume lor the present year: startling character :... | |
 | Royal Astronomical Society - 1853 - 584 pages
...of a series of sines of the same angles, the coefficients of the periodic terms being functions of the ratio of the sun's mean motion to that of the moon, of the eccentricities of the two orbits and of their mutual inclination. Now, if the eccentricity of... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 436 pages
...of a series of sines of the same angles, the coefficients of the periodic terms being functions of the ratio of the sun's mean motion to that of the moon, of the eccentricities of the two orbits and of their mutual inclination. Now, if the eccentricity of... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 450 pages
...of a series of sines of the same angles, the coefficients of the periodic terms being functions of the ratio of the sun's mean motion to that of the moon, of the eccentricities of the two orbits and of their mutual inclination. Now, if the eccentricity of... | |
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... multiples of the mean angular distance of the moon from the sun, of the mean anomalies of the moon and sun, and of the moon's mean distance from the node ; and the moon's longitude is expressed by means of a series of sines of the same angles, the... 
