SECTION V.
Lunar Theory—Periodic Perturbations of the Moon—Equation of Centre—Evection—Variation—Annual Equation—Direct and Indirect Action of Planets—The Moon’s Action on the Earth disturbs her own Motion—Excentricity and Inclination of Lunar Orbit invariable—Acceleration—Secular Variation in Nodes and Perigee—Motion of Nodes and Perigee inseparably connected with the Acceleration—Nutation of Lunar Orbit—Form and Internal Structure of the Earth determined from it—Lunar, Solar, and Planetary Eclipses—Occultations and Lunar Distances—Mean Distance of the Sun from the Earth obtained from Lunar Theory—Absolute Distances of the Planets, how found
SECTION VI.
Form of the Earth and Planets—Figure of a Homogeneous Spheroid in Rotation—Figure of a Spheroid of variable Density—Figure of the Earth, supposing it to be an Ellipsoid of Revolution—Mensuration of a Degree of the Meridian—Compression and Size of the Earth from Degrees of Meridian—Figure of Earth from the Pendulum
SECTION VII.
Parallax—Lunar Parallax found from Direct Observation—Solar Parallax deduced from the Transit of Venus—Distance of the Sun from the Earth—Annual Parallax—Distance of the Fixed Stars
SECTION VIII.