 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 424 sidor
...equinox, and it is equal to the mean, when the node is in the colure of the solstices. This change of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane...called the nutation of the axis by Sir Isaac Newton. Dr. Bradley discovered a general and periodical motion in all the stars, which altera little their... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 426 sidor
...equinox, and it is equal to the mean, when the node is in the coJure of the solstices. This change of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic was culled the nutation of the axis by Sir Isaac Newton. Dr. Bradley discovered a general and periodical'... | |
 | 1823 - 872 sidor
...pole in С ; and ¡t is equal to the mean when the node is in the colure of the solstices. This change of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane...the NUTATION of the axis by Sir Isaac Newton ; who shewed, that a change of nearly a second must obtain in a year by the action of the sun on the prominent... | |
 | 1823 - 894 sidor
...pole in С ; and it is equal to the mean when the node is in the colure of the solstices. This change of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane...called the nutation of the axis by Sir Isaac Newton. Dr Bradley also discovered a general and periodical motion in all the stars, which alter a little their... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 804 sidor
...pole in С ; and it is equal to the mean when the node is in the colure of the solstices. This change of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane...the nutation of the axis by Sir Isaac Newton; who showed that a change of nearly a second must obtain in a year by the action of the sun on the prominent... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 sidor
...and equator would be at right angles with each other ; or otherwise, as the remaining alternative, the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, must have been in some oblique angle, between 0' and ninety degrees. The consequences will be briefly... | |
 | G. Rubie - 1830 - 204 sidor
...revolution of the Heavenly Bodies from east to west in the same time ;*j" as detailed in pages 59—75. The inclination of the Earth's axis to the plane of the Ecliptic, with the cause of the Seasons, and of the different lengths of our Days and Nights, are fully illustrated... | |
 | William Martin - 1832 - 504 sidor
...performs round her own axis, the other is her yearly revolution round the Sun. By these motions and by the inclination of the Earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, is produced the beautiful vicissitude of the seasons, ami the variation of the length of the days and... | |
 | 1835 - 430 sidor
...summer in the other. In this way, the two hemispheres always have opposite seasons at the same time. The inclination of the Earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic, also causes a variation in the days and nights in dînèrent parts of the Earth's surface, and in different... | |
 | 1835 - 430 sidor
...summer in the other. In this way, the two hemispheres always have opposite seasons at the same time. withdraw the garrison and give up the post ; but President Rutled also causes a variation in the days and nights in different parts of the Earth's surface, and in different... | |
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С ; and it is equal to the mean when the node is in the colure of the solstices. This change of the inclination of the earth's axis to the plane of the ecliptic... 
