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... to Mass - Gravitation of the Particles of Matter — Figure of the Planets - How it affects the Motions of their Satellites - Rotation and Translation impressed by the same Impulse — Motion of the Sun and Solar System SECTION II .
... to Mass - Gravitation of the Particles of Matter — Figure of the Planets - How it affects the Motions of their Satellites - Rotation and Translation impressed by the same Impulse — Motion of the Sun and Solar System SECTION II .
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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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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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The gravitation of matter directed to a centre , and attracting directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance , does not belong to it when considered in mass only ; particle acts on particle according to the same law ...
The gravitation of matter directed to a centre , and attracting directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance , does not belong to it when considered in mass only ; particle acts on particle according to the same law ...
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The moon , for example , is so near the earth , that the reciprocal attraction between each of her particles , and each of the particles in the prominent mass at the terrestrial equator , occasions considerable disturbances in the ...
The moon , for example , is so near the earth , that the reciprocal attraction between each of her particles , and each of the particles in the prominent mass at the terrestrial equator , occasions considerable disturbances in the ...
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