Winchell, Alexander, 1824-1891 · Chicago, S.C. Griggs and company · leaf 271
upon its figure. If there wereno lagging of the tide the motion of the tide-producer would not be affected;and if the lagging were just 90°, the influence of the anti-tide would neutralizethat of the tide. So the equatorial protuberance of an oblate spheroid mustexert an influence on the motion of… … Fig. 44.—Varting Reaction Resulting from Vakting Viscosity. exists at the surfaces of plaiietan^ bodies when passingfrom the fluid to the solid state, but whether it ever pro-duces sufficient tidal lagging to work a retardation of asatellite is unknown. Undoubtedly the more prolongedand older…
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-233-142.webp)
