Jones, H. Spencer (Harold Spencer), 1890- · London E. Arnold & co. · leaf 105
he orbit of the Moonrelative to the Earth when the Earth is at E^, it is seen from thefigure that if the line EM always pointed in a fixed direction,so that the Moon did not revolve relative to the fixed stars,the Moon would be at R when the Earth was at E^ and themotion of the Earth would have… … Fig. 33. —To illustrate the Concavityof the Moons Path. THE MOON 91 stars is about 13°, the angle Jf j^ii? will be 130. The Moon isthereby lifted a distance r (1 — cos 136) in a direction perpen-dicular to M^L above R, and the resultant distance of M^below MaL will be E (1 - cos 6) - r {I - cos…
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