Before he completed his observations fornutation another great change in his fortunes took place.
In the case of nutation the North Pole remains in the same geographical position, but points to a different part of the heavens.
At the end of the whole series of nineteen years his conclusions were abundantly verified, and his second great discovery of nutation was established.
Either it may point to a different star, remaining fixed relatively to the earth, as in the nutation which Bradley discovered; or it may actually change its position in the earth.
Why did he not continue in the same spot, except for the slow change caused by the nutation or nodding of Venus?
The phenomena of precession andnutation depend on movements of the earth itself, and not on movements of the axis of rotation within the earth.
In another place we shall inquire into the cause of the discrepancy as given by the nutation of the earth.
The mass of the moon comes out much greater by our theory thannutation gives.
If, then, a part of the mass be latent, nutation will give too small a value.
The way in which he was led to the detection of the nutation is strikingly illustrative of the extreme care with which Bradley conducted his observations.
Another finds that the phenomena of precession and nutation require that the earth, if not entirely solid, must at least have a shell not less than eight hundred to a thousand miles in thickness.
I remember that Perry was very much excited when I told him about this Dead World, for he seemed to think that it explained the hitherto inexplicable phenomena of nutation and the precession of the equinoxes.
Nutation of the axis would determine a similar apparent motion for all stars: thus, all stars having the same polar distance as g Draconis should exhibit the same apparent motion after or before this star by a constant interval.
He compares the movement with the nutation of the higher plants.
In seven genera of twining plants* the hooking, or as it has been called by Sachs, the nutation of the tip, is mainly due to an exaggerated form of circumnutation.
His argument was, that if it were a mere shell filled with liquid, precession and nutation would be much larger than they are observed to be.
The search for it had already led Bradley to the important discoveries of the aberration of light and the nutation of the earth's axis; it was now about to lead Herschel to a discovery of a different, but even more elevated character.
It was to these qualities that he owed his discoveries of the aberration of light and the nutation of the earth's axis.
Nutation is a real "nodding" of the terrestrial axis produced by the dragging of the moon at the terrestrial equatorial protuberance.
Solar nutation depends upon the position of the Sun on the ecliptic; its period is therefore 1 year, and in extent it is only 1.
Nutation is one of the great discoveries of James Bradley (1747).
The view that the revolving movement or nutation of the stems of twining plants is due to growth is that advanced by Sachs and H.
Bradley, the astronomer, his discovery of the nutation of the earth, 12.
He has shown that the nutation of the earth's axis results from the moon's attraction on the bulging portion of our globe.
Le Monnier, the French astronomer, on the theory of the nutation of the earth, 123.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nutation" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: fluctuation; frequency; periodicity; resonance; vacillation; vibration; wavering
