Accordingly, Encke's comet is thought to have plainly suffered a retardation from encountering a resisting medium in the planetary regions.
But what has made Encke's comet particularly famous, is its having first revealed to us the existence of a resisting medium in the planetary spaces.
A perfect vacuum was deemed most probable, because no such effects on the motions of the planets could be detected as indicated that they encountered a resisting medium.
Motion of a Small Sphere vibrating in a Resisting Medium.
In mathematics I find investigations of Motion in a resisting medium, Form of Saturn, Draft of a Paper about an instrument for exhibiting the fundamental law of refraction (read at the Philosophical Society by Mr Peacock on Nov.
Foster, Isochronous Oscillations in a resisting medium, Observations on a strange piece of Iceland Spar.
This conclusion has been supported in recent years by Von Asten, a German mathematician, who has supported the theory of a resisting medium.
The hypothesis, then, of a resisting medium receives at present no countenance from the movements of comets, whether of short or of long periods.
So, too, would bodies dispersed through a resisting medium, provided they were spherical, or of forms presenting symmetrical faces to their lines of movement.
A mass which presents an irregular face to its line of movement through a resisting medium, must necessarily be deflected from its original course, by the unequal reactions of the medium on its different sides.
But irregular bodies dispersed through a resisting medium, will not move in straight lines towards their common centre of gravity.
And we have seen that some hypothetical propositions seem designed to draw attention to such uncertainty, as--If there is a resisting medium in space, etc.
The propositions predicate causation: A resisting medium in space is a condition of the earth's falling into the sun; A Corn Law is a condition of the rise of rents, and of the fall of railway profits.
The same subject was again proposed for a prize which was shared by Lagrange [1] and Euler, neither finding a solution, while the latter asserted the existence of a resisting medium in space.
This comet, called after Encke, has showed in each of its returns an inexplicable reduction of mean distance, which led to the assertion of a resisting medium in space until a better explanation could be found.
Encke's theory, Biela would require a resisting medium twenty-five times greater than the comet of Encke to reconcile observation with the theory.
According to the calculations of Professor Encke, the comet's period is accelerated about 2 hours, 30 minutes, at each return, which he considers due to a resisting medium.
But with clustered bodies already immersed in a resisting medium, and especially if such bodies are of small densities, such as those we are considering, the process of concentration will begin forthwith: two factors conspiring to produce it.
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