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" We may draw the conclusion more formally as follows : — If the rings were solid and uniform, their motion would be unstable, and they would be destroyed ; but they are not destroyed, and their motion is stable, therefore they are either not uniform... "
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society - Page 282
1859
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On the Stability of the Motion of Saturn's Rings: An Essay, which Obtained ...

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...
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The Intellectual Observer, Volume 10

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...
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The Life of James Clerk Maxwell: With a Selection from His Correspondence ...

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...
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The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell: Volume 1, 1846-1862

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...
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