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The Monist - Page 198
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An Essay on Newton's "Principia"

Walter William Rouse Ball - Mechanics, Analytic - 1893 - 195 pages
...entrance into ye inverse method of fluxions. And the same year I began to think of gravity extending to ye orb of the Moon, and having found out how to estimate the force^ withjwch_[ajjglo^ sphere presses_the surf ace gfjbhe, spKe~re7from Kepler's Rule of the periodical...
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A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of ...

Florian Cajori - Physical Laboratories - 1899 - 344 pages
...Science, pp. 152-156. In 1664 he made some observations on halos.1 In 1666, " I began," he says, " to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon, . . . and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface...
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A History of Physics in Its Elementary Branches: Including the Evolution of ...

Florian Cajori - Physical laboratories - 1899 - 342 pages
...Vol. 54., 1893, p. 381. In 1664 he made some observations on halos.1 In 1666, " I began," he says, " to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon, . . . and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface...
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Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1901 - 1060 pages
...glorious folly!" Galileo died in KJ42, and in the same year Newton was born. When 24 years old he "began to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon." and before the end of the century he had discovered and established the great law of universal gravitation....
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The Progress of the Century

Engineering - 1901 - 598 pages
...folly!" Galileo died in 1642, and in the same year Newton was born. When twenty-four years old he "began to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon," and 303 THE PROGRESS OF THE CENTURY before the end of the century he had discovered and established the...
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The Living Past: A Sketch of Western Progress

Francis Sydney Marvin - Civilization - 1913 - 318 pages
...other important theories, ' first the binomial theorem, then the method of fluxions,' and then ' began to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon,...presses the surface of the sphere, from Kepler's rule (the third law) I deduced that the forces which keep the planets in their orb must be reciprocally...
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An Introduction to the History of Science

Walter Libby - Science - 1917 - 342 pages
...hesitated, on account of certain unsettled points, to publish his results. He writes: "I began (1666) to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon, . . . and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface...
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A Short History of Science

William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - Science - 1917 - 526 pages
...and in May following I had entrance into the inverse method of Fluxions. And the same year I began to think of gravity extending to the orb of the Moon, and . . . from Kepler's Rule of the periodical tunes of the Planets being in a sesquialterate proportion...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 232

Great Britain - 1920 - 434 pages
...that time, inter alia, ' first the binomial ' theorem, then the method of fluxions,' and then ' began to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon,...force with which a globe, revolving within a sphere, from Kepler's rule (»'.«., the third law), I deduced that the forces which keep the planets in their...
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Dublin University and the New World: A Memorial Discourse Preached in the ...

Robert Henry Murray - 1921 - 104 pages
...at that time, inter alia, "first the binomial theorem, then the method of fluxions," and then "began to think of gravity extending to the orb of the moon,...force with which a globe, revolving within a sphere, from Kepler's rule (ie, the third law), I deduced that the forces which keep the planets in their orb...
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