 For while comets move in very eccentric orbs in all manner of positions, blind fate could never make all the planets move one and the same way in orbs concentric, some inconsiderable irregularities excepted which may have risen from the mutual actions...  An Elementary Treatise on Astronomy. ... - Page lviby Robert Woodhouse - 1818 - 487 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ezio Vailati - 1997 - 263 pages
...the same way in orbs concentric, some inconsiderable irregularities excepted which may have arisen from the mutual actions of comets and planets upon...to increase, till this system wants a reformation" (NO 345-46). 44. On Newton's millenarism and its relation to his cosmological views both before and... | |
 | Alfred Rupert Hall, Isaac Newton - 1999 - 236 pages
...Query 31 ad fin. (1952 edn. p. 402): '. . . inconsiderable 1rregularities . . . which may have arisen from the mutual Actions of Comets and Planets upon...and which will be apt to increase, till this System want a Reformation'. 69. Roger Cotes followed Newton in studying integrals: extensive tables that he... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - 2000 - 132 pages
...the same way in concentric orbs, some inconsiderable irregularities excepted which may have arisen from the mutual actions of comets and planets upon one another, and which will be apt to increase until this system needs a reformation. Such a wonderful uniformity in the planetary system must be... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 pages
...the same way in orbs concentric, some inconsiderable irregularities excepted which may have arisen from the mutual actions of comets and planets upon one another, and 304 305 II. Leibniz's Second Letter 1. It is rightly observed in the paper delivered to the Princess... | |
 | Matt Goldish, R.H. Popkin, J.E. Force - 2001 - 232 pages
...Planets move one and the same way in Orbs concentrick. some inconsiderable Irregularities excepted. which may have risen from the mutual Actions of Comets...will be apt to increase. till this System wants a Reformation.42 If the amount of energy in the world is decreasing owing to the tug of gravity. what... | |
 | R. Crocker - 2001 - 264 pages
...Planets move one and the same way in Orbs concentrick, some inconsiderable Irregularities excepted, which may have risen from the mutual Actions of Comets...will be apt to increase, till this System wants a Reformation.22 If the amount of energy in the world is decreasing owing to the tug of gravity, what... | |
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 pages
...the same way in orbs concentric, some inconsiderable irregularities excepted which may have arisen from the mutual actions of comets and planets upon...to increase, till this system wants a reformation. What would a "reformation" be? A miraculous act of God, putting the comets and planets back into their... | |
 | H.A. David, A.W.F. Edwards - 2001 - 280 pages
...the same way in Orbs concentrick, some inconsiderable Irregularities excepted, which may have arisen from the mutual Actions of Comets and Planets upon...to increase, till this System wants a Reformation. Such a wonderful Uniformity in the Planetary System must be allowed the Effect of Choice. From this... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - 2006 - 790 pages
...had thought that the mutual action of planets and comets on one another would produce irregularities 'which will be apt to increase, till this system wants a Reformation' at the hand of its Creator.'3 The instability which Newton had predicted could not occur, as Laplace... | |
 | Neil deGrasse Tyson - 2007 - 392 pages
...some inconsiderable Irregularities excepted, which may have arisen from the mutual actions of . . . Planets upon one another, and which will be apt to increase, till the system wants a Reformation, (p. 402) As we will detail in Section 7, Newton implied that God might... | |
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