Lectures on The Lunar Theory
Langue : anglais
Edité par P.M. Erwood, Kent, 1980
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An 88-page pamphlet (modern facsimile reprint)of the original that was first published in October 1900, ed. R.A. Sampson. One of many astronomy items we have in stock. Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng.
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- Titre
- Lectures on The Lunar Theory
- Auteur
- ADAMS, John Couch
- Éditeur
- P.M. Erwood, Kent
- Année de publication
- 1980
- État de l'article
- Very Good
- Jaquette
- No Jacket
- Reliure
- Soft cover
- Langue
- anglais
- ISBN à 10 chiffres
- 0907322026
- ISBN à 13 chiffres
- 9780907322023
- Édition
- 1st Edition.
- Catalogues du vendeur
- Astronomy
Présentation de l'éditeur
The Lunar Theory may be said to have had its commencement with Newton. Many irregularities in the Moon's motion were known before his time, but it was he that first explained the cause of those irregularities and calculated their amounts from theory.
Of the inequalities which are due to the action of the Sun, the first,—which is called the Evection,—was discovered by Ptolemy, who lived at Alexandria in the first half of the second century of our era, under the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius. At a very early period the relative distance of the Moon at different times could be told from the angle it subtended, and its orbit could thus be mapped out. By such means Ptolemy found that its form was not the same from month to month, and that the longer axis moved continually though not uniformly in one direction. He represented this change by a motion of the centre of the ellipse,... in an epicycle round the focus, obtaining thus a variable motion for the longer axis and a variable eccentricity.....
Probably we have here the reason why circular motions and epicycles were first employed.
Tycho Brahe (1546—1601) discovered the existence of another inequality in the Moon's Longitude quite different from the Elliptic Inequality and the Evection. He found it bore reference to the position of the Sun with regard to the Moon; so that when the Sun and the Moon were in conjunction or opposition or quadratures the position of the Moon was quite well represented by the existing theory, but from conjunction to the quadrature following, her position was more advanced than the place assigned to it, reaching a maximum of some 35' about half-way; and in the second quadrant it was just as much behind. This inequality he called the Variation; it was the first that Newton accounted for theoretically, and if we were to suppose the Moon and Sun to move, except for mutual disturbance, in pure circles in the same plane, it is the only one that would present itself.
The next significant step was made by Horrox (1619—1641) who represented the Evection geometrically by motion in a variable ellipse, and gave very approximately the law of variation of the eccentricity and the motion of the apse. He supposed the focus of the orbit to move in an epicycle about its mean place.
Newton's Principia did not profess to be and was not intended for a complete exposition of the Lunar Theory. It was fragmentary; its object was to shew that the more prominent irregularities admitted of explanation on his newly discovered theory of universal gravitation. He explained the Variation completely, and traced its effects in Radius Vector as well as in Longitude; and he also saw clearly that the change of eccentricity and motion of the apse that constitute the Evection could be explained on his principles, but he did not give the investigation in the Principia, even to the extent to which he had actually carried it. The approximations are more difficult in this case than in that of the Variation, and require to be carried further in order to furnish results of the same accuracy as had already been obtained by Horrox from observation. He was more successful in dealing with the motion of the node and the law of change of inclination. He shewed that when Sun and Node were in conjunction, then for nearly a month the Moon moved in a plane very approximately, and that the inclination of the orbit then reached its maximum, namely, 5° 17' about; but as the Sun moved away from the Node the latter also began to move, attaining its greatest rate when the separation was a quadrant, and that at this instant the inclination was 5° very nearly. He also assigned the law for intermediate positions. The fact that there was no motion when the Sun was at the Node, that is, in the plane of the Moon's orbit, confirmed his theory that these inequalities were due to the Sun's action....
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