66 MR. IVORY ON HOMOGENEOUS ELLIPSOIDS SUSCEPTIBLE OF AN EQUILIBRIUM. 



raation on which the equilibrium depends, and leave the fluid to adjust its figure 

 solely by the attraction and the centrifugal force of its particles ? The discovery of 

 Jacobi makes no change in the usual theory of the figure of the planets ; but it is 

 valuable, as it completes a mathematical speculation, and finally settles what relates 

 to the figure of ellipsoids susceptible of an equilibrium. 



