Reply to various objections which have been brought against his theory of the secular acceleration of the moon's mean motion
By: J.C. Adams
Published: 1860
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Orbit
Notes: Reprinted from the Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (April 1860), with additions and corrections by the author [E.156.3.20, etc.].

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