| Thomas Kerigan - 1828 - 776 páginas
...To find the mean Distance of a Planet from the Sun. RULE. squares of their periodical times will be to each other in the same proportion as the cub.es of their mean distances from the central body ; and hence the following rule : — As the square of the earth's periodical... | |
| Essays - 1828 - 368 páginas
...more bodies move round another as their center of motion, the squares of their periodic times will be to each other in the same proportion, as the cubes of their distances from the central body. This holds precisely, with regard to the planets round the Sun, and... | |
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 páginas
...This connection is expressed in the following proposition: — " The squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun." Take, for example, the earth and Mars*, whose periods are in the proportion... | |
| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 páginas
...This connection is expressed in the following proposition : — " The squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun." Take, for example, the earth and Mars*, whose periods are in the proportion... | |
| 1834 - 578 páginas
...respect to the motions of the sun and moon. 3. The square* of the mean periodic times of different planets are to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of tha axis major of their respective orbits. For instance, if the axis major of Mercury's orbit be supposed... | |
| 1834 - 574 páginas
...respect to the motions of the sun and moon. 3. The squares of the mean periodic times of different planets are to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of the axis major of their respective orbits. For instance, if the axis major of Mercury's orbit be supposed... | |
| Thomas Kerigan - 1838 - 804 páginas
...body as their common centre of motion, the squares of their periodical times of revolution will be to each other, in the same proportion, as the cubes of their distances from the central body. — See Problem XXXVf, page 745. Now, let the earth be at rest, and... | |
| Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1843 - 498 páginas
...elements. (Jewish Antiquities, Book iii. Sect. 7.) strated that " the squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun, — a law which has been found equally true of satellites and their primaries,... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 402 páginas
...sun. It has been found that, with respect to any two planets, the squares of the times of revolution are to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances,—a most surprising result, for the discovery of which the world was indebted to the illustrious... | |
| Thomas Monck Mason - 1845 - 208 páginas
...sun. It has been found that, with respect to any two planets, the squares of the times of revolution are to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances— a most surprising result, for the discovery of which the world was indebted to the illustrious... | |
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