 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - 906 páginas
...imperfectly rigid crust which would thus 'yield so freely to the deforming influence of sun and moon that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean...tidal rise and fall of water relatively to land'. He therefore summarized the state of his case in 1876: The hypothesis of a perfectly rigid crust containing... | |
 | 750 páginas
...moon's attractions." " The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of sun and moon that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean...up and down with it, and there would be no sensible rise and fall of water relatively to the land." (" Popular Lectures," Vol. II., pp. 251-2.) Lord Kelvin's... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1908 - 762 páginas
...moon's attractions." " The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of sun and moon that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean...up and down with it, and there would be no sensible rise and fall of water relatively to the land." (" Popular Lectures," Vol. II., pp. 251-2.) Lord Kelvin's... | |
 | 1876 - 1108 páginas
...continuous steel and 500 kilometers thick, it would yield very nearly as much as if it were india-rubber, to the deforming influences of centrifugal force and of the sun's and moon's attractions. Now, although the full problem of precession and nutation, and what is now necessarily included in... | |
 | 1876 - 880 páginas
...five hundred kilometres thick, it would yield very nearly as much as a solid globe of indian-rubber, to the deforming influences of centrifugal force and of the sun's and moon's attractions. The supposition of a crust of such thickness as would be consistent with the actual amounts of precession... | |
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The solid crust would yield so freely to the deforming influence of sun and moon that it would simply carry the waters of the ocean up and down with it, and there would be no sensible rise and fall of water relatively to the land. 
