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INTRODUCTION Page 1 SECTION I. Attraction of a Sphere — Form of Celestial Bodies — Terrest 11 Gravitation retains the Moon in her Orbit - The Heavenly Bodie move in Conic Sections - Gravitation Proportional to Mass- Gravitation of the ...
INTRODUCTION Page 1 SECTION I. Attraction of a Sphere — Form of Celestial Bodies — Terrest 11 Gravitation retains the Moon in her Orbit - The Heavenly Bodie move in Conic Sections - Gravitation Proportional to Mass- Gravitation of the ...
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... Absorption of Light Colours of Bodies — Constitution of Light according to Sir David Brewster - New Colours Fraunhofer's Dark Lines - Dispersion of Light — The Achromatic Telescope — Homogeneous Light- Accidental and Complementary ...
... Absorption of Light Colours of Bodies — Constitution of Light according to Sir David Brewster - New Colours Fraunhofer's Dark Lines - Dispersion of Light — The Achromatic Telescope — Homogeneous Light- Accidental and Complementary ...
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Magnetism a Dual Power Antithetic Character of Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism — The Earth Paramagnetic - Properties of Paramagnetic Bodies Polarity — Induction - · Lines of Magnetic Force - Currents of Electricity induced by them Proved ...
Magnetism a Dual Power Antithetic Character of Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism — The Earth Paramagnetic - Properties of Paramagnetic Bodies Polarity — Induction - · Lines of Magnetic Force - Currents of Electricity induced by them Proved ...
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Thus , experience teaches that bodies fall at the surface of the earth with an accelerated velocity , and with a force proportional to their masses . By comparison , Newton proved that the force which occasions the fall of bodies at the ...
Thus , experience teaches that bodies fall at the surface of the earth with an accelerated velocity , and with a force proportional to their masses . By comparison , Newton proved that the force which occasions the fall of bodies at the ...
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SECTION I. Attraction of a Sphere — Form of Celestial Bodies Terrestrial Gravitation retains the Moon in her Orbit · The Heavenly Bodies move in Conic Sections Gravitation Proportional to Mass Gravitation of the Particles of Matter ...
SECTION I. Attraction of a Sphere — Form of Celestial Bodies Terrestrial Gravitation retains the Moon in her Orbit · The Heavenly Bodies move in Conic Sections Gravitation Proportional to Mass Gravitation of the Particles of Matter ...
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