Brocklesby, John, 1811-1889. [from old catalog] · New York, Sheldon and company · leaf 179
the contrary direction EGF, at What is the daily amount of retrogradation ? In what period does the line of the nodemake a complete revolution? Are the moons perigee and apogee stationary as respect!her nodes ? In what direction do they move ? What is the line of the apsides, and howdoes it move 1… … MOTIONS OF THE NODES AND APSIDES. about half the rate at which it revolves on its centre, wecan roughly represent both the motion of the line of thenodes, and that of the line of the apsides. For it is evi-dent, first, that the supposed line of the nodes EDF,would revolve in the imaginary plane of…
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