 ... depends upon the velocity with which they were first propelled in space. Had that velocity been such as to make the planets move in orbits of unstable equilibrium, their mutual attractions might have changed them into parabolas, or even hyperbolas,...  Mechanism of the Heavens - Page xiiby Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...of the sun — for the nature of the conic sections in winch the celestial bodies move, depends upon the velocity with which they were first propelled...earth and planets might, ages ago, have been sweeping far from our sun through the abyss of space : but as the orbits differ very little from circles, the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...of the sun — for the nature of the conic sections in which the celestial bodies move, depends upon the velocity with which they were first propelled...equilibrium, their mutual attractions might have changed into parabolas, or even hyperbolas so that the earth and planets might, ages ago, have been sweeping... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1835 - 532 pages
...velocity been such as to make the planets move in orbits of unstable equilibrium2., ' Note 68. a Note 59. their mutual attractions might have changed them into...earth and planets might, ages ago, have been sweeping far from our sun through the abyss of space. But as the orbits differ very little from circles, the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 506 pages
...of the sun ; for the nature of the conic sections in which the celestial bodies move, depends upon the velocity with which they were first \• propelled...the planets move in orbits of unstable equilibrium (N. 60), their mutual attractions might have changed them into parabolas, or even hyperbolas (N. 22)... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...of the sun ; for the nature of the conic sections in which the celestial bodies move, depends upon the velocity with which they were first propelled...the planets move in orbits of unstable equilibrium (N. 60), their mutual attractions might have changed them into parabolas, or even hyperbolas (N. 22)... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 pages
...that of the sun ; for the nature of the conic sections in which the celestial bodies move depends upon the velocity with which they were first propelled...the planets move in orbits of unstable equilibrium (N. 60), their mutual attractions might have changed them into parabolas, or even hyperbolas (N. 22)... | |
 | Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 678 pages
...dissent from this assumption. The scope of our whole argument is opposed to it. — AUTHOR. depends upon the velocity with which they were first propelled...earth and planets might, ages ago, have been sweeping far from our sun through the abyss of space. But as the orbits differ very little from circles, the... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 412 pages
...sections in which the celestial bodies move, depends upon the velocity with which they were first impelled in space. Had that velocity been such as to make the...earth and planets might, ages ago, have been sweeping far from our sun through the abyss of space. But as the orbits differ very little from circles, the... | |
 | Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 648 pages
...dissent from this assumption. The scope of our whole argument is opposed to it.—AUTHOR. depends upon the velocity with which they were first propelled in space. Had that velocity heen such as to make the planets move in orhits of unstable equilibrium, their mutual attractions might... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, Timothy Flint, John Holmes Agnew - 1851 - 644 pages
...distinguished authoress, as to make the planets move in orbits of unstable equilibrium, their mutual attraction might have changed them into parabolas, or even hyperbolas...earth and planets might, ages ago, have been sweeping far from our sun through the abyss of space. But as the orbits differ very little from circles, the... | |
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