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The Earth's Constitution and the Nutations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2015
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The theoretical researches on this subject were first developed in a consistent theory, in 1765, by Euler, who studied the theory of the motion of a rotating rigid body. Bradley shortly before, in 1737, had discovered the first forced nutation, with a period of 18.6 years, which was explained by d'Alembert.
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- Session III
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- Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 78: Nutation and the Earth's Rotation , 1980 , pp. 139 - 151
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- Copyright © Reidel 1980