Stars and telescopes; a hand-book of popular astronomy, founded on the 9th ed. of Lynn's Celestial motions (1899)
Todd, David P. (David Peck), 1855-1939, Lynn, William Thynne, 1835-1911. Celestial motions · Boston, Little, Brown and company · leaf 307
of Professor G. H. Darwin, the (ring-theory was never seriously questioned, at least inregard to planetary evolution. But the course ofthought was greatly changed when he showed that theMoon probably separated from the Earth not in theannular form supposed by La Place, but in the formof a globular… … LORD ROSSE (180O-1867) The Cosmogony 249 especially high when the two bodies were close to-gether. As the matter composing our planet is fac-tional, the tides lag, and the tidal protuberance inthe Earth therefore points in advance of the Moon,and exerts on it a small force tending to accelerateits…
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