10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EVAGATION»
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The Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts ...
Sir Henry James will have rendered a service to science if he succeeds in
inducing geologists to inquire into the effects of this periodical evagation, the
laws and limits of which are known ; but, until they have done so, it would
perhaps be wise ...
2
Year-book of Facts in Science and Art
I have already stated that we have in the mountain masses, which have been
upheaved at different periods and in different parts of the earth, a sufficient cause
for producing that evagation of the poles which Newton, before any of these ...
Charles Robert Cross (1848-1921, ed), William Ripley Nichols, John Trowbridge (1843-1923, ed), 1861
3
Annual of Scientific Discovery; Or, Year-book of Facts in ...
I have already stated that we have in the mountain masses, which have been
upheaved at different periods and in different parts of the earth, a suflicient cause
for producing that evagation of the poles which Newton, before any of these ...
4
Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Account of the ...
caufe all the variation of the velocity about AB ; that velocity varies in
confequence of the evagation of the pole P ; and that evagation is caufed by the
motive forces urging the body to turn about AB, AC, AD, conjunftly. Therefore the
motive force ...
Royal Society (Great Britain), 1785
5
The Bible explainer; or A dictionary of the names, countries ...
Evagation means wandering, a going or departure from a position. "If," says this
philosopher, the earth were of uniform density, the poles would traverse the circle
of evagation (or wandering) in 300 days, and if the density increases from the ...
William Nicholson (of Halifax.), 1870
6
Encyclopædia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ...
tions, and given the whole paths of evagation. Mr RotationSegnor was, we
believe, the first who showed (in a Dissertation De Motu Yzzrlz'mxm, Halle, 1755)
, that in every body there were at least three lines passing through the centre of
gravity ...
7
The Athenæum: A Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine ...
\Vithout insisting that this is the vera causa which produced an evagation of the
poles, for there are several other possible causes which would have produced it,
let it be supposed that from any cause ahcchange in the position of the poles has
...
... altered inclination of the earth's axis. And this leads me to observe, that your
correspondents have fallen into some inaccuracy in speaking of an evagation of
the earth's axis as an hypothesis. The extent of any new evagation assumed may,
...
9
The critical review, or annals of literature
The quantity of variation, our author calls the tract of polar evagation, and the
object of this paper is to ascertain it, in given circumstances. The papir consists of
mathematical reasoning, and cannot be abridged. Mr. Landen opposes the ...
10
The Gentleman's Magazine
.B_y HfAZohn Landen, F. R. S. er mentioning the polar evagation \ of the earth, it
is added,that, *' in other U planets, the traeks of polar evagation " may, from a
similar cause, be very 'f different. The theory above ex" plained evidently proves,
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