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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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Molecular Forces — Permanency of the ultimate Particles of Matter - Interstices — Mossotti's Theory – Rankin's Theory of Molecular Vortices — Gases reduced to Liquids by Pressure Gravitation of Particles -Cohesion Crystallization ...
Molecular Forces — Permanency of the ultimate Particles of Matter - Interstices — Mossotti's Theory – Rankin's Theory of Molecular Vortices — Gases reduced to Liquids by Pressure Gravitation of Particles -Cohesion Crystallization ...
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... of Matter through Space — Gravitation — Its Velocity — Simplicity of its Laws — Gravitation independent of the Magnitude and Distances of the Bodies Not impeded by the intervention of any Substance - Its Intensity invariable .
... of Matter through Space — Gravitation — Its Velocity — Simplicity of its Laws — Gravitation independent of the Magnitude and Distances of the Bodies Not impeded by the intervention of any Substance - Its Intensity invariable .
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Gravitation not only binds satellites to their planet , and planets to the sun , but it connects sun with sun throughout the wide extent of creation , and is the cause of the disturbances , as well as of the order of nature ; since ...
Gravitation not only binds satellites to their planet , and planets to the sun , but it connects sun with sun throughout the wide extent of creation , and is the cause of the disturbances , as well as of the order of nature ; since ...
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On the other hand , descending from the principle of gravitation , every motion in the solar system has been so completely explained , that the laws of any astronomical phenomena that may hereafter occur are already determined .
On the other hand , descending from the principle of gravitation , every motion in the solar system has been so completely explained , that the laws of any astronomical phenomena that may hereafter occur are already determined .
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