| James Clerk Maxwell - 1859 - 90 pages
...do not coincide with their centres of figure. We may draw the conclusion more formally as follows, "If the rings were solid and uniform, their motion...therefore they are either not uniform or not solid." I have not discovered* either in the works of Laplace or in those of more recent • Since this was... | |
| 1867 - 558 pages
...concluding that the rings were irregular solids of unequal thickness, he should have inferred that since if solid and uniform their motion would be unstable and they would be destroyed, the fact that they are stable and permanent shows that they are either not uniform, or not solid. He... | |
| Lewis Campbell, William Garnett - 1882 - 810 pages
...rings must be irregular, Maxwell says : — We may draw the conclusion more formally as follows : — If the rings were solid and uniform, their motion...therefore they are either not uniform or not solid. I have not discovered, either in the works of Laplace or in those of more recent mathematicians, any... | |
| James Clerk Maxwell - 1990 - 836 pages
...their centres of figure. <14) Perhaps we may be allowed to express his conclusion under this form. ' If the rings were solid and uniform their motion would...they would be destroyed. But they are not destroyed therefore they are either not uniform or not solid.' I have not discovered either in the works of Laplace... | |
| |