 | 1867 - 460 pages
...Cambridge in 18Ti, gives us the following us the result of his investigations of the subject: " The result of the mechanical theory is, that the only system...respective distances. These particles may be arranged in scries of narrow rings, or they may move through each other irregularly. We are not able to ascertain... | |
 | 1867 - 558 pages
...theory suffer such perturbation as to break it up ; and ho therefore concludes that the rings are " composed of an indefinite number of unconnected particles,...velocities according to their respective distances," and that these are probably arranged in a series of * B. and M. thought otherwise. They interpreted... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 546 pages
...solid or rigid ; he disposes of the possibility of their being continuously fluid, and he concludes that "the only system of rings which can exist is...number of unconnected particles revolving round the planets with different velocities according to their respective distances." Lieut. Davies appears not... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1871 - 662 pages
...solid or rigid ; he disposes of the possibility of their being continuously fluid, and he concludes that " the only system of rings which can exist is...number of unconnected particles revolving round the planets with different velocities according to their respective distances." Lieut. Davies appears not... | |
 | Lewis Campbell, William Garnett - 1882 - 810 pages
...rings diverging from each other, or by intermediate parts of the system moving away from the mean ring. The final result, therefore, of the mechanical theory...respective distances. These particles may be arranged in a series of narrow rings, or they may move through each other irregularly. In the first case the destruction... | |
 | Lewis Campbell, William Garnett - 1882 - 738 pages
...rings diverging from each other, or by intermediate parts of the system moving away from the mean ring. The final result, therefore, of the mechanical theory...respective distances. These particles may be arranged in a series of narrow rings, or they may move through each other irregularly. In the first case the destruction... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1889 - 990 pages
...out of the rings in breadth, the outer rings pressing outward, while the inner rings press inward. "The final result, therefore, of the mechanical theory...respective distances. These particles may be arranged in a series of narrow rings, or * Saturn?! Rings, pp. 06, 67. they may move through each other irregularly.... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1889 - 984 pages
...out of the rings in breadth, the outer rings pressing outward, while the inner rings press inward. "The final result, therefore, of the mechanical theory...round the planet with different velocities according to'their respective distances. These particles may be arranged in a series of narrow rings, or •... | |
 | Camille Flammarion - 1894 - 734 pages
...formation. The only system of rings which could exist is a system composed of an infinite number of distinct particles revolving round the planet with different...velocities, according to their respective distances. No refraction being 1 Without yet asserting the fact, we may remark that it is difficult to reconcile... | |
 | Sir George Howard Darwin - 1898 - 408 pages
...out of the rings in breadth, the outer rings pressing outward, while the inner rings press inward. " The final result, therefore, of the mechanical theory...respective distances. These particles may be arranged in a series of narrow rings, or they may move through each other irregularly. In the MAXWELL'S CONCLUSIONS... | |
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The final result, therefore, of the mechanical theory is, that the only system of rings which can exist is one composed of an indefinite number of unconnected particles, revolving round the planet with different velocities according to their respective... 
