This phenomenon, known as "nutation," was discovered by the beautiful telescopic researches of Bradley, in 1747.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Heavens] Reference

Invert the skinfield, go for flat nutation on the fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Mirror] Reference

If, then, a part of the mass be latent, nutation will give too small a value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

The mass of the moon comes out much greater by our theory than nutation gives.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

Watch the nutation, they may try changing attitude and coming from above or below.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dark Mirror] Reference

In another place we shall inquire into the cause of the discrepancy as given by the nutation of the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

And I reprogrammed the nutation rate on the laser on the fusing system so that I can handle a higher rate of closure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bear and the Dragon]

And one of them is, that the precession of the dinner-plates, and the nutation of the glasses, do not promote the music of the spheres.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 07, May 14, 1870] Reference

Inertial and gravitational mass being identical, too rapid a change of gravitational potential will tend to cause uncontrollable precession and nutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorations]

Bailly, Herschel, and others, from the nutation of the earth's axis, only found 1/80, and the Baron Lindenau deduced the mass from the same phenomenon 1/88.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

Hope, (a very respectable base line, one would suppose,) makes the mass of the moon greater than its value derived from nutation; the first giving about 1/70, the last about 1/74.2.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

Precession and nutation of the Earth's axis, 492-502.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Heavens] Reference

These discoveries of aberration and nutation, says Delambre, the great.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Science] Reference

Sometimes this path is loopy, and its little nods correspond to nutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Science] Reference

The similar result of the action of the moon upon the earth is called nutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference

Bradley, and nutation, 501; and the aberration of light, 503; his observations of Uranus, 312.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Heavens] Reference

It was to these qualities that he owed his discoveries of the aberration of light and the nutation of the earth's axis.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference

Further, the latitudes and longitudes of the said table are the apparent, that is, alTected by the nutation and aberration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Dead World, for he seemed to think that it explained the hitherto inexplicable phenomena of nutation and the precession of the equinoxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Earth's Core] Reference

During this period, Bradley, more fortunate on the other side of the Channel, immortalized himself by the discovery of aberration and nutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men] Reference

The phenomena of precession and nutation depend on movements of the earth itself, and not on movements of the axis of rotation within the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Heavens] Reference

All such disturbances as precession, aberration, nutation, refraction, and the like, would affect them both equally, and could thus be eliminated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pioneers of Science] Reference

On the other hand experimental evidence of the RF fi eld radial component, is shown and explained through NMR pulse sequences such as simple nutation experiments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The 18-yaer cycle has the same cycle time as the earth’s nutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Risk Management Solutions Ltd and the 37 Professors « Climate Audit] Reference

"nutation in obliquity" (ok, it's a phrase, but just say it aloud like you know what it means).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tech Report: News] Reference

February 14, 2010 – On this date in 1747, astronomer James Bradley presented his evidence of Earth’s wobble, called nutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – February 12-14, 2010 | Universe Today] Reference

He also stated in his conclusion that ” precession and nutation cycles do have an effect on glaciation but they do not determine the period of glacial/interglacial cycles.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hansen and Schmidt: Predicting the Past? « Climate Audit] Reference

So from the midmost the nutation spreads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2] Reference

So from the midmost the nutation spreads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference

That given by nutation depends on gravity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms Containing the True Law of Lunar Influence] Reference

"aberration" of light and of nutation.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of Astronomy] Reference

— 19 "80.; nutation « — 12" 6.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

Axis, Polar, 196, 497; precession and nutation of the Earth's, 492-502.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Heavens] Reference