
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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