Unpublished appendix, 'Detailed calculation of the advance of perihelion of a planet moving in the equatorial plane, on the basis of Whitehead's theory of gravitation' by C B Rayner
Reference number: AP/81/23
Date: 1955
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Rayner presents equations relating to the 'orbits of test-particles in the equatorial plane' and 'the advance of perihelion of planetary orbits.
Annotations in pencil and ink throughout. Note on front reads 'For deposit in the RS Archives'.
Subject: Physics / Astronomy
The affiliated paper was published in volume 232 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society A as 'The effects of rotation of the central body on its planetary orbits, after the Whitehead theory of gravitation'.
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- AP/81/23
- Earliest possible date
- 1955
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- Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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- 11 pages
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- Typescript
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C B Rayner
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C B Rayner, Unpublished appendix, 'Detailed calculation of the advance of perihelion of a planet moving in the equatorial plane, on the basis of Whitehead's theory of gravitation' by C B Rayner, 1955, AP/81/23, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_81_23/unpublished-appendix-detailed-calculation-of-the-advance-of-perihelion-of-a-planet-moving-in-the-equatorial-plane-on-the-basis-of-whiteheads-theory-of-gravitation-by-c-b-rayner, accessed on 04 December 2025
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Date: 11th October 1955
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.1955.0206
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Archived papers: volume 81, scientific papers submitted the Royal Society unpublished or abstracted, 1939-1955
1939-1955 Reference number: AP/81
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