On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences |
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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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The Conservation of Force and the Permanency of Matter Primary Laws of Nature - Definition of Gravity not according to that Law Gravity only the Residual Force of a Universal Power - Magnetism of the Ethereal Medium 335 SECTION XXXV .
The Conservation of Force and the Permanency of Matter Primary Laws of Nature - Definition of Gravity not according to that Law Gravity only the Residual Force of a Universal Power - Magnetism of the Ethereal Medium 335 SECTION XXXV .
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By such steps he was led to the discovery of one of those powers with which the Creator has ordained that matter should reciprocally act upon matter . Physical astronomy is the science which compares and identifies the laws of motion ...
By such steps he was led to the discovery of one of those powers with which the Creator has ordained that matter should reciprocally act upon matter . Physical astronomy is the science which compares and identifies the laws of motion ...
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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 earth may , therefore , be regarded as the centre of a force which extends to the moon ; and , as experience shows that the action and reaction of matter are equal and contrary ( N. 19 ) , the moon must attract the earth with an ...
The earth may , therefore , be regarded as the centre of a force which extends to the moon ; and , as experience shows that the action and reaction of matter are equal and contrary ( N. 19 ) , the moon must attract the earth with an ...
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