Moulton, Forest Ray, 1872-1952 · New York, The Macmillan company · leaf 83
as it goes, of the reason that the moon and sunraise tides in the earth, reserving for Arts. 263, 264 a more 54 AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY [ch. ii, 25 complete treatment of the question. In Fig; 17 let E rep-resent the center of the earth, the arrow the direction towardthe moon, and A and B the… … Fig. 17. — The tidal bulges at A and B on the earth produced bythe moon. a unit mass at A is greater than it is for a unit mass at E,and greater for a unit mass at E than it is for one at B.Since the distance from the earth to the moon is 240,000miles, the distance of the moon from A is fifty-nine…
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