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Excerpt from Astronomical Investigations: The Cosmical Relations of the Revolution of the Lunar Apsides; Oceanic Tides Perhaps it was declined because an attempt has been made in it to free an abstruse and difficult subject from the technicalities and obscurities in Which it is commonly involved, by reducing the principles through which some 'of 'the phenomena resulting from revolving motion, combined with a gravitating attraction in a complex system, ought to be interpreted, to simple geometrical demonstrations, stripped of algebraic formulae and symbolic calculations though it may have been because the_ views advanced in it do not agree with the opinions of the day. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.