A London encyclopaedia, or universal dictionary of science, art, literature and practical mechanics : comprising a popular view of the present state of knowledge : illustrated by numerous engravings, a general atlas, and appropriate diagrams (1829)
Curtis, Thomas, fl. 1820 · London : Thomas Tegg · leaf 45
tion ; and that of de la Grange onthe Libration of the Moon, which obtained theprize in the Academy of Paris in 1769. Thedissertation of Frisius is thought the most per-spicuous of them all, being conducted in the me-thod of geometrical analysis; whereas most ofthe others proceed in the fluxionary… … eartn, and M the moon, moving in the orbit N MC Dn, which cuts the plane of the ecliptic, inthe line of the nodes Nn, and has one-half raisedabove it, as represented in the figure, the otherhalf being hid below the ecliptic. Suppose thisorbit folded down; it will coincide with theecliptic in the…
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