Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 63
moon and the earth inversely as theirmasses. Since these masses are about as 1 to 80, and theirdistance apart is 60 radii of the earth, the position of thisaxis must be about 3000 miles from the center of the earth.Let M (Fig. 35) represent the/ moon, E the earth, and A Athe common axis of… … A But the distance of the water on this side from the axis ofrevolution is also smaller than elsewhere, so that the watermay be gathered together about B and still remain in equi-librium while revolving about AA under the influence ofdiminished weight. On the side opposite the moon a greatercentral…
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