Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 344
and wasthereby able to get a complete geometrical explanation ofthe various librations of the moon (chapter vi., § 133), andto fix with accuracy the position of the axis about whichthe moon rotates. A map of the moon based on hisobservations was published with other posthumous worksin 1775. * A… … TtAltu/f UU 7 T CXjtaxkjtrjaJp (JMnpLM. Fig. 79.—Tobias Mayers map of the moon. [To face p. 282. $$ 225, 226] Tobias Mayer 283 Much more important, however, were his lunar theoryand the tables based on it. The intrinsic mathematicalinterest of the problem of the motion of the moon, and itspractical…
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