Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Chronological List of Papers with References to the Volumes in which they are contained
- Errata
- PART I PERIODIC ORBITS
- PART II THE TIDES
- PART III MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
- 5 On some Proposed Forms of Slide-rule
- 6 An Application of Peaucellier's Cell
- 7 The Mechanical Description of Equipotential Lines
- 8 On a Mechanical Representation of the Second Elliptic Integral
- 9 On Maps of the World
- 10 A Geometrical Puzzle
- 11 A Geometrical Illustration of the Potential of a Distant Centre of Force
- 12 On Graphical Interpolation and Integration
- 13 On a Theorem in Spherical Harmonic Analysis
- 14 On Fallible Measures of Variable Quantities, and on the Treatment of Meteorological Observations
- 15 On the Horizontal Thrust of a Mass of Sand
- 16 On the Formation of Ripple-mark in Sand
- 17 Note on Mr Davison's Paper on the Straining of the Earth's Crust in Cooling
- 18 On the Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm of Meteorites, and on Theories of Cosmogony
- 19 On the Perturbation of a Comet in the Neighbourhood of a Planet
- 20 The Eulerian Nutation of the Earth's Axis
- 21 The Analogy between Lesage's Theory of Gravitation and the Repulsion of Light
- PART IV PAPERS ON TIDES (Supplementary to Volume I)
- PART V ADDRESSES TO SOCIETIES
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
6 - An Application of Peaucellier's Cell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- Contents
- Chronological List of Papers with References to the Volumes in which they are contained
- Errata
- PART I PERIODIC ORBITS
- PART II THE TIDES
- PART III MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
- 5 On some Proposed Forms of Slide-rule
- 6 An Application of Peaucellier's Cell
- 7 The Mechanical Description of Equipotential Lines
- 8 On a Mechanical Representation of the Second Elliptic Integral
- 9 On Maps of the World
- 10 A Geometrical Puzzle
- 11 A Geometrical Illustration of the Potential of a Distant Centre of Force
- 12 On Graphical Interpolation and Integration
- 13 On a Theorem in Spherical Harmonic Analysis
- 14 On Fallible Measures of Variable Quantities, and on the Treatment of Meteorological Observations
- 15 On the Horizontal Thrust of a Mass of Sand
- 16 On the Formation of Ripple-mark in Sand
- 17 Note on Mr Davison's Paper on the Straining of the Earth's Crust in Cooling
- 18 On the Mechanical Conditions of a Swarm of Meteorites, and on Theories of Cosmogony
- 19 On the Perturbation of a Comet in the Neighbourhood of a Planet
- 20 The Eulerian Nutation of the Earth's Axis
- 21 The Analogy between Lesage's Theory of Gravitation and the Repulsion of Light
- PART IV PAPERS ON TIDES (Supplementary to Volume I)
- PART V ADDRESSES TO SOCIETIES
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
- Type
- Chapter
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- The Scientific Papers of Sir George DarwinPeriodic Orbits and Miscellaneous Papers, pp. 268Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009First published in: 1911