Lexicographical Neighbors of Nutational
Literary usage of Nutational
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Text-book of Geology by Archibald Geikie (1903)
"He found that the processional .and nutational movements ... globular portion yf
the interior mass the precessional and nutational motions which, with '. ..."
2. The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica: A (1907)
"He found that the precessional and nutational movements could not possibly be as
they are if the planet consisted of :i rentrai ocean of molten rock ..."
3. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1877)
"... allow the motion of the whole to be sensibly that of a rigid body, ú,- deviation
first sensible renders the processional or nutational motion of the *•! ..."
4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1872)
"It requires some practice to get a good drawing of the processional and nutational
curves by hand, and so I disposed the apparatus in such a way as to allow ..."
5. Mathematical and Physical Papers: Collected from Different Scientific by Baron William Thomson Kelvin, Sir Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule (1890)
"The hydrodynamical theory shows that, irrespectively of the thickness of the
shell, the nutation of the crust would be zero if the period of the nutational ..."
6. Scientific Papers by George Howard Darwin, Francis Darwin, Ernest William Brown (1908)
"nutational couples, and the remark may be repeated that, ... must not seek to
consider the precessional and nutational effects apart from the tidal effects. ..."
7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General (1890)
"He found that the precessional and nutational movements could not possibly be as
they are if the planet consisted of a central ocean of molten rook ..."
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