 | Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 410 pages
...fuffering the leaft diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the furfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical caufes ufe to do), but according to the quantity of the folid matter which they contain, and propagates its virtue on all fides to immenfe diftances,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...centres of the =un and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force ; that it operates, not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates its... | |
 | James Davis (C.E.) - Bible and science - 1866 - 270 pages
...centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force. That it operates, not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes used to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | John Martin (of Melbourne.) - Atmospheric circulation - 1875 - 104 pages
...centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force ; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes use to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - Mind and body - 1875 - 580 pages
...centers of the Sun and Planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force ; that operates, not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts, (as mechanical causes use to do,) but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | Chemistry - 1883 - 710 pages
...centres of the sun and planets without suffering the least diminution ofl its force ; that operates, not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts [as mechanical causes used to do], but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain ; and propagates... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Literature - 1901 - 428 pages
...centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes use to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - Science - 1904 - 378 pages
...centre of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force ; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes used to do), but according to the quantity of solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | Carl Snyder - Celestial mechanics - 1907 - 520 pages
...centres of the sun and the planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force ; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes used to do) but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | Carl Snyder - Celestial mechanics - 1907 - 516 pages
...centres of the sun and the planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force ; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes used to do) but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
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... of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. 
