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§ 191. | Reception of the Principia |
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§ 192. | Third period of Newton's life, 1687-1727 : Parliamentary career : improvement of the lunar theory : appointments at the Mint and removal to London : publication of the Optics and of the second and third editions of the Principia, edited by Cotes and Pemberton : death |
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§ 193. | Estimates of Newton's work by Leibniz, by Lagrange, and by himself |
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§ 194. | Comparison of his astronomical work with that of his predecessors : "explanation" and "description" : conception of the material universe as made up of bodies attracting one another according to certain laws |
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§ 195. | Newton's, scientific method : "Hypotheses non fingo" |
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CHAPTER X.
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§ 196. | Gravitational astronomy : its development due almost entirely to Continental astronomers : use of analysis : English observational astronomy |
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§§ 197-8. | Flamsteed : foundation of the Greenwich Observatory : his star catalogue |
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§ 199. | Halley : catalogue of Southern stars |
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§ 200. | Halley's comet |
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§ 201. | Secular acceleration of the moon's mean motion |
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§ 202. | Transits of Venus |
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§ 203. | Proper motions of the fixed stars |
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§§ 204-5. | Lunar and planetary tables : career at Greenwich : minor work |
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§ 206. | Bradley : career |
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§§ 207-11. | Discovery and explanation of aberration : the constant of aberration |
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§ 212. | Failure to detect parallax |
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§§ 213-5. | Discovery of nutation : Machin |
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§§ 216-7. | Tables of Jupiter's satellites by Bradley and by Wargentin : determination of longitudes, and other work |
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§§ 216-7. | Tables of Jupiter's satellites by Bradley and by Wargentin : determination of longitudes, and other work |
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§ 218. | His observations : reduction |
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