 ADEC, quite contrary to the opinion of the vulgar who think that, if the earth moved, heavy bodies in falling would be outrun by its parts and fall on the west side of the perpendicular.  Astronomy: A Popular Handbook - Page 89by Harold Jacoby - 1913 - 435 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Walter William Rouse Ball - 1893 - 195 pages
...earth at which the body arrives in its fall ; and therefore it will not descend the perpendicular AC, but outrunning the parts of the earth will shoot forward to the east side of the perpendicular describing in its fall a spiral line ADEO, quite contrary to the opinion of the vulgar who think that,... | |
 | 1903 - 530 pages
...of the parts of the earth at which the body arrives in its fall ; and therefore it will not descend the perpendicular . . ., but outrunning the parts...shoot forward to the east side of the perpendicular, describing in its fall a spiral line . . ., quite contrary to the opinion of the vulgar who think that,... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1914 - 666 pages
...which the body arrives in its fall ; and therefore the body will not descend the perpendicular AC, but, outrunning the parts of the earth, will shoot forward to the east side of the perpendicular, describing in its fall a spiral line ADEC, quite contrary to the opinion of the vulgar who think that,... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1980 - 428 pages
...Accordingly, it will not descend along a straight line from its original position toward the earth's center, 'but outrunning the parts of the earth will shoot forward to the east side'. This, said Newton, is 'quite contrary to the opinion of the vulgar who think that if the earth moved,... | |
 | R. Taton, C. Wilson, Michael Hoskin - 2003 - 310 pages
...Earth at which the body arrives in its fall: and therefore it will not descend in the perpendicular AC, but outrunning the parts of the Earth will shoot forward to the east side of the perpendicular describing in its fall a spiral line ADEC, quite contrary to the opinion of the vulgar who think that... | |
 | 1922 - 1406 pages
...Roy. Soc. iii. 512). Newton's words are : ' And therefore it will not descend in the perpendicular AC, but, outrunning the parts of the earth, will shoot forward to the east side of the perpendicular, describing in its fall a spiral line ADEC.' A figure shows the path of the falling body relative to... | |
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