Laplace, Pierre Simon, marquis de, 1749-1827 · Boston, Hillard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins · leaf 230
x, y ; its height comprised between its bases, will evidently considered as being on the plane joining these parallel edges, neglecting quantities of the second order. And it is evident that the same must take place in the case under consideration. For the forces, acting on the different parts of… … of the motion; dhikg the oblique parallelopiped ( B ) representing the situation and form of (A) at the end of the time t; the parallelopiped ( B ) is described in a separate figure, upon a larger scale, so as to make the letters and lines of reference more legible, and to this figure we must…
Celestial mechanics · Tides · Capillarity
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