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The elements of astronomy; a textbook (1919)

Young, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1834-1908, Young, Anne Sewell, b. 1871., ed · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 86

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e dailyT7 oo 7, ,, . .. , . motions and apparent diameters Fig. 23. — Equable Description of Areas. rr in a table, we find that the dailymotions vary directly as the squares of the diameters. From this 1 He ;and every one else until the time of Kepler) assumed on meta-physical grounds that the suns… … § 118] keplers problem. 73 it can be shown to follow that the earth moves in such a waythat its radius vector describes areas proportional to the times, alaw which Kepler first brought to light in 1609. That is tosay, if ab, cd, and ef, Fig. 23, be portions of the orbit describedby the earth in…

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