The Connection of the Physical SciencesKey and Biddle, 1834 - 356 pages |
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... satellites also gravitate to their primaries according to the same law that their primaries do to the sun . Hence , by the law of action and re - action , each body is itself the centre of an attractive force extend- ing indefinitely in ...
... satellites also gravitate to their primaries according to the same law that their primaries do to the sun . Hence , by the law of action and re - action , each body is itself the centre of an attractive force extend- ing indefinitely in ...
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... satellites are near enough to be sensibly affected in their motions by the forms of their primaries . The moon , for example , is so near the earth , that the reciprocal attraction between each of her paticles , and each of the ...
... satellites are near enough to be sensibly affected in their motions by the forms of their primaries . The moon , for example , is so near the earth , that the reciprocal attraction between each of her paticles , and each of the ...
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... satellites , in the same direction . These , however , though sufficient , are not necessary conditions ; the periodicity of the terms in which the inequalities are expressed is enough to assure us that , though we do not know the ...
... satellites , in the same direction . These , however , though sufficient , are not necessary conditions ; the periodicity of the terms in which the inequalities are expressed is enough to assure us that , though we do not know the ...
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... satellites would be different from the in- fluence of those that have none ; but the distances of the satellites from their primaries are incomparably less than the distances of the planets from the sun , and from one another ; so that ...
... satellites would be different from the in- fluence of those that have none ; but the distances of the satellites from their primaries are incomparably less than the distances of the planets from the sun , and from one another ; so that ...
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... satellites , like the planets , were probably projected in elliptical or- bits , but the compression of Jupiter's spheroid is very great in consequence of his rapid rotation ; and as the masses of the satellites are nearly 100000 times ...
... satellites , like the planets , were probably projected in elliptical or- bits , but the compression of Jupiter's spheroid is very great in consequence of his rapid rotation ; and as the masses of the satellites are nearly 100000 times ...
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Page 20 - That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fixed, in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentrick, intervolved, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Page 316 - Bacon, that the words of prophecy are to be interpreted as the words of one 'with whom a thousand years are as one day, and one day as a thousand years.
Page 10 - Kepler also deduced from observation, that the squares of the periodic times of the planets, or the times of their revolutions round the sun, are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from...
Page 28 - His true position is in the diagonal of the parallelogram, whose sides are in the ratio of the velocity of light to the velocity of the earth in its orbit, which is as 190000 to 19.
Page 298 - Jupiter ; it then gradually diminished in splendour, and, having exhibited all the variety of tints that indicate the changes of combustion, vanished sixteen months after its discovery, without altering its position. It is impossible to imagine anything more tremendous than a conflagration that could be visible at such a distance.
Page 296 - The distance of the fixed stars is too great to admit of their exhibiting a sensible disc ; but, in all probability, they are spherical, and must certainly be so if gravitation pervades all space, which it may be presumed to do, since Sir John Herschel has shown that it extends to the binary systems of stars.
Page 318 - These formulae, emblematic of Omniscience, condense into a few symbols the immutable laws of the universe. This mighty instrument of human power itself originates in the primitive constitution of the human mind, and rests upon a few fundamental axioms, which have eternally existed in Him who implanted them in the breast of man when He created him after His own image.