 | Tom Telescope, Oliver Goldsmith, John Newbery - 1803 - 162 sivua
...easily as correction, which you deserve, Tom Wilson, for your impertinence. Gravity, my young friends, is that universal disposition of matter which inclines...were, the lesser body to it. — Thus, all bodies in or near the earth's surface have a tendency, or seeming inclination, to descend towards its middle... | |
 | Tom Telescope - 1808 - 188 sivua
...easily as correction, which you deserve, Tom Wilson, for your impertinence. Gravity, my young friends, is that universal disposition of matter which inclines...lesser part towards the centre of the greater part ; this is called weight or gravitation in the lesser body, but attraction in the greater, because it... | |
 | Tom Telescope, Oliver Goldsmith - 1812 - 148 sivua
...correction, which ill manners always deserves, glancing his eye at Wilson. Gravity, my young friends, is (hat universal disposition of matter which inclines or...were, the lesser body to it. — Thus, all bodies in or near the earth's surface have a tendency, or seeming inclination, to descend towards its middle... | |
 | Tom Telescope - 1812 - 146 sivua
...correction, which ill manners always deserves, glancing his eye at Wilson. Gravity, my young friends, is that universal disposition of matter which inclines...greater, because it draws as it were, the lesser body to it.—Thus, all bodies in or near the earth's surface have a tendency, or seeming inclination, to descend... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1830 - 576 sivua
...moon f \\ hat is meant by a satellite 1 7. Of what shape is the Earth 1 On what does the Earth rest 1 How is the Earth supported in open space 1 — Gravity...which is called weight, or gravitation, in the LESSER BODV, but attraction in the GREATER, because it draws, as it were, the LESSER BODY to it. Thus all... | |
 | 1838 - 348 sivua
...be supported, however, it may be situated in other respects. Or, to render this more plain, gravity is that universal disposition of matter, which inclines or carries the lesser parts towards the centre or greater part, which is called weight or gravitation in the lesser body,... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1847 - 134 sivua
...rectilineal course which it would otherwise have continued to move in. 10. GRAVITY, or ATTRACTION, is that universal disposition of matter, which inclines,...body; but ATTRACTION in the greater, because it draws, or attracts, as it were, the lesser body to it.f 11. Thus all bodies, on or near the Earth's * From... | |
 | Thomas Christensen - 2004 - 350 sivua
...young friends, is that universal disposition of matter which inclines or carries the lesser part; this is called weight or gravitation in the lesser body,...greater, because it draws, as it were, the lesser body towards it. Thus, all bodies in or near the earth's surface have a tendency, or seeming inclination,... | |
 | Thomas Christensen - 2004 - 350 sivua
...the many popularizers of Newtonian science from the eighteenth century: Gravity, my young friends, is that universal disposition of matter which inclines or carries the lesser part; this is called weight or gravitation in the lesser body, but attraction in the greater, because it... | |
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Gravity, my young friends, is that universal disposition of matter which inclines or carries the lesser part towards the centre of the greater part, which is called weight or gravitation in the lesser body, but attraction in the greater, because it draws,... 