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Mécanique céleste (1829)

Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827, Bowditch, Nathaniel, 1773-1838, Bowditch, N. I. (Nathaniel Ingersoll), 1805-1861 · Boston, Hillard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins · leaf 198

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E to P, making EP = EP = EP=E P ; draw the lines pPit, fPW, pPit, parallel and equal to p P it, so that the points p, p, p, p, may be at equal elevations above the equator, and the points *, it1 it, «, at equal depressions below it. Then it is evident, from the nature of the function V [1428], and… … [1555c] BEP = v, BEP = it—zs, BEP = it + tx, BEP = 2* — zs, [1555rf] therefore the function V will not vary by changing a into *- — w, *■+«, or 2t — -a; [1555e] 44 174 ATTRACTION OF A SPHEROID. [Méc. Ctl. [1555*] therefore be nothing when i is odd,* and if i be even, the term dependingon the angle…

Celestial mechanics · Tides · Capillarity

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