 Orbs must [be] reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about which they revolve: and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth, and found them answer...  The Monist - Page 199edited by - 1914Full view - About this book
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 | Arthur Berry - Astronomy - 1899 - 550 pages
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 | Florian Cajori - Physical Laboratories - 1899 - 344 pages
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...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...of the earth, and found them answer pretty nearly." 2 The above thoughts on gravitation occurred to him while he was at his home in Lincolnshire, where... | |
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...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...surface of the earth, and found them answer pretty nearly."2 The above thoughts on gravitation occurred to him while he was at his home in Lincolnshire,... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Physical laboratories - 1899 - 340 pages
...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...surface of the earth, and found them answer pretty nearly."2 The above thoughts on gravitation occurred to him while he was at his home in Lincolnshire,... | |
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