By Pierre Simon Marquis de Laplace
ISBN-10: 1108001572
ISBN-13: 9781108001571
Released in 1831, this paintings varieties a part of a set of introductory volumes prompt by means of Henry, Lord Brougham and Vaux, the Lord Chancellor, for the Society of the Diffusion of valuable wisdom. because of the extraordinary mathematical skill of its writer, even if, it outgrew its unique plan and has due to the fact that been obvious as a slightly extra bold undertaking. Praised by way of Somerville's modern Sir John Herschel for its presentation of basic astronomical theories and the mechanical ideas hired of their derivation, the paintings used to be a journey de strength of clinical and technical exposition. it's specifically striking either for its author's enterprise seize of the topic, in particular given her loss of formal mathematical education, and for its transparent define of Newtonian philosophy for a favored viewers.
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Perkins, they appear to be capable of a greater degree of compression than has generally been imagined. It appears then, that the axis of rotation is invariable on the surface of the earth, and observation shows, that were it not for the action of the sun and moon on the matter at the equator, it would remain parallel to itself in every point of its orbit. The attraction of an exterior body not only draws a spheroid towards it; but, as the force varies inversely as the square of the distance, it gives it a motion about its centre of gravity, unless when the attracting body is situated in the prolongation of one of the axes of the spheroid.
The places of the fixed stars are affected by the precession of the equinoxes; and as the law of that variation is known, their positions at any time may be computed. Now Eudoxus, a contemporary of Plato, mentions a star situate in the pole of the equator, and from computation it appears that x Draconis was not very far from that place about 3000 years ago ; but as Eudoxus lived only about 2150 years ago, he must have described an anterior state of the heavens, supposed to be the same that was determined by Chiron, about the time of the siege of Troy.
The author had occasion to witness an instance of this most interesting application of astronomy, in ascertaining the date of a papyrus sent from Egypt by Mr. Salt, in the hieroglyphical researches of the late Dr. Thomas Young, whose profound and PRELIMINARY DISSERTATION. varied acquirements do honour not only to his country, but to the age in which he lived. The manuscript was found in a mummy case; it proved to be a horoscope of the age of Ptolemy, and its antiquity was determined from the configuration of the heavens at the time of its construction.
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