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THE investigation which forms the subject of this paper is entirely mathematical, and is therefore not of a kind to be easily condensed into a short account.
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01 January 1880
AN erratum has been pointed out to me in my article in NATURE, vol. xxi. p. 235, and I should be glad to correct it.
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DARWIN, G. On the Secular Changes in the Elements of the Orbit of a Satellite Revolving About a Planet Distorted by Tides 1 . Nature 21, 235–237 (1880). https://doi.org/10.1038/021235a0
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