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CATALOGUE.— -ASTaONOMY, TIDES. 



Simpson on the horary displacement of the 

 earth's equator. Ph. tr. 1757. 486. 



Correcting Silvabelle and Walmesley. 



Lalande on the change of hilitude of the 



stars. A. P. 1758. 339- H. 87- 

 Darcy on the precession of the equinoxes. 



A. P. 1759. 420. 

 J. A. Euler on perturbations from want of 



sphericity. A. Berh 1765. 414. 

 Murdoch's comparison of the sun and moon. 



Ph. tr. 1768. 24. 



Makes the moon very dense. 



Precession of the equinoxes. Emerson's 

 miscellanies. 180. 



Gerlach on the figure of the earth, and on 

 the motion of its axis. 8. R. S. 



Laplace on the precession of the equinoxes, 

 A. P. 1777.329 



Laplace on the rotation of the heavenly bo- 

 dies. M. Inst. L 301. 



Laplace on the fall of a body from a great 

 height. B. Soc. Phil. n. 75. See Practi- 

 cal astronomy. 



Milner on the precession of the equinoxes. 

 Ph. tr. 1779- 505. 



Finds it by a simple method 2l" fl"' for the effijct of 

 ttie sun. There seems to be some confusion respecting 

 compound rotation. 



Heniiert et Frisius de uniformitate motus 



diurni terrae. 4. Petersb. R. S. 



Ace. N. A. Petr. 1783. L 132. 

 Vince on the precession of the equinoxes. 



Ph. tr. 1787.363. 



The solar portion 2i" 6'", supposing the earth of uni- 

 form density, and the ellipticity ^J^ ; but in reality about 



Bode on the displacement of the earth's axis. 



A. Berl. 1797. 100. Ph. M. XL 310. 

 Trembley on tlie precession of the equinoxes. 



A. Berl. 1799. 131. 

 M. Young on Uie precession of the equinoxes. 



Iv. tr. Vn. 3. 



Vou Zach on the precession of the equinoxes. 

 Zach. Mon. corr. IL 500. 



The lunisolar precession so'.aagg, the real observed pre- 

 cession 50".o5i or rather 50".0982. 



Robison doubts the accommodation of the period of the 

 moon's rotation to that of her revolution, and principally 

 because her axis is not perpendicular to her orbit. Ele- 

 ments, 518. 



Theory of the Tides. 



Aerial Tides. See Meteorology. 



For the particular phenomen;-., see Practical 



Astronomy. 

 Hydrology. Ph. tr. abr. IL IV. VI. VIII. X. 

 fWallis on the tides. Ph. tr. 1665-6. I. 



263,297. 1668. III. 652. 



Deducing the tides from the earth's centrifugal force, in 

 revolving round the common centre of gravity of the earth 

 and moon. 



Wallis's answer to Childrey. Ph. tr. 1670. V, 



2068. 

 Philips. Ph.tr. 1668. III. 656. 



Observes, that the monthly variations of the tides are is 

 the versed sines of the times. 



Childrey 's remarks on Wallis's theory. Ph. 



tr. 1670. V. 2061. 

 Hooke. Birch. II. 475. 



Illustrated the ascent of a tide in a narrow channel by the 

 agitation of mercury in a triangular vessel. 



Newtoni Principia. 



Halley's Newtonian theory of the tides. Ph. 

 tr. 1697. XIX. 445. 



Observes, that great variations in the time of the tides 

 may be produced by shoals. 



Prize essays on the tides, by Cavalleri, Ber- 

 noulli, Maclaurin, and Euler. A. P. Prix. 

 IV. vi. . . ix. 



The la«t three are also in Le Seur's Newtoo. 



Elder on a new kind of oscillations. C. Petr. 



XI. 128. 

 Euler on the equilibrium of the sea. A. Petr. 



1780. IV. i. 132. 

 Wargentin on the tides. Schw. abh. 1753. 



165, 249. 1754. 83. 



