Category:
Historical Papers
Sub-Category:
Astrophysics
Date Published:
November 1924
Keywords:
ballistic theory, De Sitter, variable stars, Mira Ceti, MMX
Filename:
LaRosa_RendLincei[trans]_v33n2(1924)446-452.pdf
Publication:
Atti della Reale Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti Lincei.
Comments:
Thomas E. Miles using Google Translation from Italia language
Abstract:
Neither can I pass over in silence a new Note from prof. De Sitter (2), which also aims at the end: to demolish theories from their foundation’s ballistics in general, and the one I sketched for the phenomena of the "stars variables" in particular.
The main argument, with which he believes he can prove his own the absurdity lies in this consequence, which he causes to spring from it of a short and unclear calculation: "that the star would in a part of its orbit have three different velocities at the same time". Now this calculation by prof. De Sitter is correct only formally, but it is substantially erroneous, since such is all the reasoning that serves base and guide to the calculation itself.
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