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Treatise on natural philosophy (1912)

Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907, Darwin, George Howard, Sir, 1845-1912, Tait, Peter Guthrie, 1831-1901 · Cambridge [Eng.] : University Press · leaf 509

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Elevation. Plan * This number has been chosen for the first practical machine to be con-structed, because a chief application of the machine may be to the calculationof the corrections on approximate values already found of the six elements ofthe orbit of a comet or asteroid. 486 APPENDIX B, [IL… … In Fig, 3 only one of the six cords, and the six pulleys overwhich it passes, is shown, not any of the other thirty. The threepulleys seen at the top of the sketch are three out of eighteenpivoted on immoveable bearings above the machine, for the pur-pose of counterpoising the weights of the…

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