RESONANCE THEORY: "On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite Revolving About a Tidally Distorted Planet." (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Vol. 171 for the Year 1880 Part I & Part II, pp. 713-891).
London: Royal Society of London, 1880. Hardcover. First Edition. x, 419 pp.; iv, 421-1092 pp. 51 plates. 4to. Library binding, tan leather spine with gold embossed titling. Interiors clean, ex-library stamp on title page, and occurring sporadically within. Numerous folding plates that illustrate articles. Pages were trimmed slightly when rebound. Very Good.
George H. Darwin's (1845-1912) "Resonance Theory" of the origin of the moon, according to which the moon might have originated from the fission of a parent earth as the result of an instability produced by resonant solar tides.
Also contains William Huggins's paper on stellar spectrum photography, "On the Photographic Spectra of Stars."
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