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Form of the Earth and Planets — Figure of a Homogeneous Spheroid in Rotation — Figure of a Spheroid of variable Density — Figure of the Earth , supposing it to be an Ellipsoid of Revolution — Mensuration of a Degree of the Meridian ...
Form of the Earth and Planets — Figure of a Homogeneous Spheroid in Rotation — Figure of a Spheroid of variable Density — Figure of the Earth , supposing it to be an Ellipsoid of Revolution — Mensuration of a Degree of the Meridian ...
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SECTION X. Rotation of the Earth invariable · Decrease in the Earth's mean Temperature - · Earth originally in a state of Fusion - Length of Day constant Decrease of Temperature ascribed by Sir John Herschel to the variation in the ...
SECTION X. Rotation of the Earth invariable · Decrease in the Earth's mean Temperature - · Earth originally in a state of Fusion - Length of Day constant Decrease of Temperature ascribed by Sir John Herschel to the variation in the ...
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Thus , experience teaches that bodies fall at the surface of the earth with an accelerated velocity , and with a force ... By comparison , Newton proved that the force which occasions the fall of bodies at the earth's surface is ...
Thus , experience teaches that bodies fall at the surface of the earth with an accelerated velocity , and with a force ... By comparison , Newton proved that the force which occasions the fall of bodies at the earth's surface is ...
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If the earth were a sphere , and at rest , a body would be equally attracted , that is , it would have the same weight at every point of its surface , because the surface of a sphere is everywhere equally distant from its centre .
If the earth were a sphere , and at rest , a body would be equally attracted , that is , it would have the same weight at every point of its surface , because the surface of a sphere is everywhere equally distant from its centre .
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minished in the ratio ( N. 16 ) of 1 to 3600 , which is the square of the moon's distance ( N , 17 ) from the earth's centre , estimated in terrestrial radii , it is found to be exactly the space the moon would fall through in the first ...
minished in the ratio ( N. 16 ) of 1 to 3600 , which is the square of the moon's distance ( N , 17 ) from the earth's centre , estimated in terrestrial radii , it is found to be exactly the space the moon would fall through in the first ...
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| Title | On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences |
| Author | Mary Somerville |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | J. Murray, 1858 |
| Original from | National Library of the Netherlands |
| Digitized | 18 Jan 2013 |
| Length | 523 pages |
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