| Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1729 - 546 pages
...feparated to infinity. Laftly, If it univerfally appears, by experiments and '' aftronomicalobfervations, that all bodies about the Earth, gravitate towards...; and that in proportion to the quantity of matter which they feverally contain; that the Moon likewife, according to the quantity of its matter, gravitates... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1759 - 188 pages
...feparated to Infinity. Laß!y, if it um-verJaHy appears, by Experiments and aflronomica! ©bfervations, that all Bodies about the Earth gravitate towards...and that in Proportion to the Quantity of Matter, which they federally, contain j that the Mean likewife, according to the Quantity of its Matter, gravitates... | |
| Richard Helsham - Mechanics - 1767 - 458 pages
...If it be univerfally evident by " experiments and agronomical obfervations, " that all bodies round the earth gravitate ** towards the earth, and that...in proportion " to the quantity of matter in each, and that " the moon gravitates towards the earth in " proportion to its quantity of matter, and in... | |
| Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 410 pages
...aftronomical obfervations, that all bodies about the earth gravi163 . MATHEMATICAL PRINCIPLES Book III. tate towards the earth, and that in proportion to the quantity of matter which they feverally contain ; that the moon likewife, according to the quantity of its matter, gravitates... | |
| Noah Knowles Davis - Induction (Logic) - 1895 - 224 pages
...is stated by Newton as an obvious and necessary inference. He says : " If it universally appears, by experiments and astronomical observations, that all...earth, and that in proportion to the quantity of matter which they severally contain ; that the moon likewise, according to the quantity of its matter, gravitates... | |
| Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1914 - 666 pages
...matter, conformably to the third rule of his regulae philosophandi : "....If it universally appears, by experiments and astronomical observations, that all...bodies about the earth gravitate towards the earth, and gravitate in proportion to the quantity of matter which they severally contain; that the moon likewise,... | |
| Lewis White Beck - History - 1966 - 332 pages
...particles may be divided and actually separated to infinity. Lastly, if it universally appears, by experiments and astronomical observations, that all...earth, and that in proportion to the quantity of matter which they severally contain: that the moon likewise, according to the quantity of its matter, gravitates... | |
| Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...bodies we assign the same qualities to their ultimate particles. Lastly, if it universally appears, by experiments and astronomical observations, that all...earth, and that in proportion to the quantity of matter which they severally contain; that the moon likewise, according to the quantity of its matter, gravitates... | |
| Alexander Sissel Kohanski - Philosophy, Ancient - 1984 - 352 pages
...extrapolation of his Rule III this may seem to be the case. Lastly [he writes], if it universally appears, by experiments and astronomical observations, that all...earth, and that in proportion to the quantity of matter which they severally contain; and the same holds true of the moon around the earth and of the sea toward... | |
| Morris H. Shamos - Science - 1987 - 384 pages
...Lastly, if it universally appears, hy experiments and astronomical ohservations, that all hodies ahout the earth gravitate towards the earth, and that in proportion to the quantity of matter which they severally contain; that the moon likewise, according to the quantity of its matter, gravitates... | |
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