Winchell, Alexander, 1824-1891 · Chicago, S.C. Griggs and company · leaf 256
isfactorily accomplished in practice. The total vertical fluctuation of the tide is the sum ofthe flood and ebb tides; or in Figure 38, it is am. 4- o c.The flood tide rises twice as high above the mean sphereas the ebb tide falls below it. This is apparent from thegeneral consideration that the… … Fig. 39. —Film Tide. 228 A COOLIKG PLANET. is spread over a circular area of about one-fourth theextent. Each circular area, nevertheless, is more than aquadrant in breadth, having a radius, in a homogeneousspheroid, of 54° 44. The tidal effect on the same tide-bearer, is directly asthe mass of the…
Nebular hypothesis · Cosmogony
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-297-191.webp)