If the attraction of the sun for the огпtre of the earth, and of the hemisphere diametrically opposite to him, were diminished by a difficulty in penetrating the interposed matter, the tides would be more obviously affected. Its attraction is the same... Mechanism of the Heavens - Page lxixby Mary Somerville - 1831 - 621 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 484 pages
...the scale, it is possible that gravitation may not remain the same throughout every part of space. Perhaps the day may come when even gravitation, no...attraction of the sun for the centre of the earth, and of the hemisphere diametrically opposite to him, were diminished by a difficulty in penetrating the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1834 - 390 pages
...the scale, it is possible that gravitation may not remain the same throughout every part of space. Perhaps the day may come when even gravitation, no...ultimate principle, may be resolved into a yet more genenral cause, embracing every law that regulates the material world. The action of the gravitating... | |
 | Patrick Murphy - 1836 - 308 pages
...mode of action are unknown."* And that the anticipation of Mrs. Somervill, when she states, " that perhaps the day may come, when even gravitation, no...principle, may be resolved into a yet more general * Dr. Wm. Prout, in his " Abstract of Observations on Atmospheric Air," page 568, observes that " the... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1837 - 406 pages
...the glimpse of many preceding inquirers, and with the persuasion, for years past entertained, that " perhaps the day may come, when even gravitation, no longer regarded as an ultimate principle, may be VI. The formal denial of the pretended " Lunar Discoveries" of the same indefatigable astronomer, appears,... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 pages
...Vathek, p. 217. P. 63,1. 15. Even gravitation, of material laws The rule, may sink into a wider cause. " Perhaps the day may come when even gravitation, no...embracing every law that regulates the material world." — SOMERVILLE on the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, p. 409. NOTES SIXTH EPISTLE TO A FRIEND IN... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1840 - 854 pages
...gravitation itself, is only a particular case of the still more general principle of electric action. The action of the gravitating force is not impeded...attraction of the sun for the centre of the earth, and of the hemisphere diametrically opposite to him, were diminished by a difficulty in penetrating the... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 506 pages
...gravitation itself, is only a particular case of the still more general principle of electric action. The action of the gravitating force is not impeded...densest substances. If the attraction of the sun for the center of the earth, and of the hemisphere diametrically opposite to him, were diminished by a difficulty... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - 496 pages
...gravitation itself, is only a particular case of the still more general principle of electric action. The action of the gravitating force is not impeded...densest substances. If the attraction of the sun for the center of the earth, and of the hemisphere diametrically opposite to him, were diminished by a difficulty... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 568 pages
...gravitation itself is only a particular case of the still more general principle of electric action. The action of the gravitating force is not impeded...attraction of the sun for the centre of the earth, and of the hemisphere diametrically opposite to him, were diminished by a difficulty in penetrating the... | |
 | Peter Parley (pseud.) - 1862 - 326 pages
...the glimpse of many preceding inquirers, and with the persuasion, for years past entertained, that, " perhaps the day may come, when even gravitation, no...embracing every law that regulates the material world "* VIII. I have given a full account of Lord Kosse's celebrated Telescopes, and remarked in some degree... | |
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