on the paper as it comes before me.
Perhaps if they should be commu-
nicated to Mr Adams, they might
induce him to enter a little more fully
into the explanation of some points
which are yet in some degree obscure to me
([alpha]) I do not fully grasp the general
explanation of Mr Adams’s new terms
given on pages 5 & 6 - the tangential
force on the moon is retarding in
the first quarter, accelerating in
the second, retarding in the 3rd. ac-
-celerating in the 4th - Now it is
true that the state of excentricity of
the Earth’s orbit, has changed between
the 1st. & 2nd., but it has also changed in the same way between the 2nd. & 3rd.
and in the long run I apprehend
that these must balance - that is, betn.
the middle of the 1st. quarter & the middle
of the 3rd. Quarter, the effects of diminution
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- Author
- John Couch Adams
- Reference
- RR/2/1
- Series
- RR
- Date
- 1853
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Referee report by G. B. Airy on 'On the Secular Variation of the Moon's Mean Motion' by J. C. Adams, 1853. From The Royal Society, RR/2/1
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