The Boston school compendium of natural and experimental philosophy .. (1837)
Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 · Boston : Marsh, Capen & Lyon · leaf 227
Let M, in the above figure, be the moon revolving in its orbit ;E, the earth covered with water. The moon, attracting the earth,affects the solid parts of it, as if its whole weight were in a point at around the sun, that is, in the ecliptic, it is plain that the sun would be eclipsed atevery new…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-86-62.webp)
