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 1063
ical line F(^, and the line FC on the continuation of BF. We shall also suppose that the vertical lines Q,F, DC, are continued upwards towards E and Z; that the lines FC, CGFH, are horizontal, and that the line AF, being continued, meets CHm G. We shall take C, for the origin of the rectangular… … X.Suppl.2.] ACTION OF A WEDGE ON A PLANE. 849 the two methods. We see evidently by both, not only the identity of [9974] tlie figure, and in an upward direction ; so that if an attracting particle be at S, we shall havefor its rectangular coordinates the vertical line CZ=z, and the horizontal lines…
Celestial mechanics · Tides · Capillarity
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