Selections from John William Draper's History of the Intellectual Development of Europe: Für Den Schulgebrauch Ausgewählt und Erklärt |
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Page 61
... gravitation upon the principle that all bodies tend to approach each other with forces directly as their masses , and inversely as the squares of their distances . 2 15 To the force producing this tendency of bodies to approach each ...
... gravitation upon the principle that all bodies tend to approach each other with forces directly as their masses , and inversely as the squares of their distances . 2 15 To the force producing this tendency of bodies to approach each ...
Page 62
... deflected from the tangent thirteen feet every minute ; but , if the hypothesis of gravitation were true , her deflection 35 should be fifteen feet . It is no trifling evidence EXTENSION OF ATTRACTION OR GRAVITY . 63 of the scrupulous.
... deflected from the tangent thirteen feet every minute ; but , if the hypothesis of gravitation were true , her deflection 35 should be fifteen feet . It is no trifling evidence EXTENSION OF ATTRACTION OR GRAVITY . 63 of the scrupulous.
Page 64
... gravitation must be imputed to the sun , and 5 to all the planetary bodies as well as to the earth . Accordingly , this was what Newton asserted in respect to all material substance . But it is a necessary consequence of this theory ...
... gravitation must be imputed to the sun , and 5 to all the planetary bodies as well as to the earth . Accordingly , this was what Newton asserted in respect to all material substance . But it is a necessary consequence of this theory ...
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Für Den Schulgebrauch Ausgewählt und Erklärt John William Draper. RESULTS OF THE THEORY OF GRAVITATION . 65 and irregularities of the solar system have been satisfactorily accounted for and reduced to compu- tation . Trusting to these ...
Für Den Schulgebrauch Ausgewählt und Erklärt John William Draper. RESULTS OF THE THEORY OF GRAVITATION . 65 and irregularities of the solar system have been satisfactorily accounted for and reduced to compu- tation . Trusting to these ...
Page 66
... gravitation without sentiments of ad- miration and , indeed , of pride . How felicitous has been the manner in which have been explained the inequalities of a satellite like the moon under 20 the disturbing influence of the sun ; the ...
... gravitation without sentiments of ad- miration and , indeed , of pride . How felicitous has been the manner in which have been explained the inequalities of a satellite like the moon under 20 the disturbing influence of the sun ; the ...
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