M?canique C?leste, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

By Pierre-Simon Laplace

Excerpt from M canique C leste, Vol. 3

WE have given, in the first part of this work, the general principles of the equilibrium and motion of bodies. The application of these principles to the motions of the heavenly bodies, has conducted us, by geometrical reasoning, without any hypothesis, to the law of universal attraction the action of gravity, and the motions of projectiles on the surface of the earth, being particular cases of this law. We have then taken into consideration, a system of bodies subjected to this great law of nature and have obtained, by a singular analysis, the general expressions of their motions, of their figures, and of the oscillations of the fluids which cover them. From these expressions, we have deduced all the known phenomena of the flow and ebb of the tide the variations of the degrees, and of the force of gravity at the surface of the earth; the precession of the equinoxes; the libration of the.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0282990305
• ISBN13: 9780282990305
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Length: 1056 Pages
• Weight: 3.04 lbs.
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