 | 1762 - عدد الصفحات: 668
...the earth, yet it is very poffibl* " that, as high as the moon, this power may differ in " ftrength much from what it is here." To make an eftimate what...periods of the feveral planets with their diftances from from the fun, he found, that, if any power like gravity held them in their courfes, its ftrength muft... | |
 | 1762 - عدد الصفحات: 410
...the degree of this diminution, he confidered whri himfelf, that, if the moon be retained in hct crbit by the force of gravity, no doubt the primary planets are carried round the fun by tie like power ; and, by comparing the periods of the: fevera) planets witn their... | |
 | 1791 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...moon be retained m her orbit by the force cf gravity, no doubt the primary planets are carried round the fun by the like power ; and by comparing the periods of the feveral planets with their diftances tmm the fun, lie found that if- any power like gravity held them in their courles, its ftrength muft... | |
 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 496
...here. To make an estimate what might "be the degree of this diminution, he considered with himself, that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force...gravity, no doubt the primary planets are carried round the sun by the like power ;.and by comparing the periods of the several planets with th'eir distances... | |
 | John Aikin - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 730
...here." To make an estimate what might be the degree of this diminution, he considered with himself, that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force...gravity, no doubt the primary planets are carried round the sun by the like power ; and, by comparing the periods of the several planets with their distances... | |
 | John Watkins - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 568
...here." To form an estimate what might be the degree of this diminution, he considered with himself, that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force of gravity, then the primary planets must be carried round the sun by the like power. And by comparing the periods... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 788
...ot' what might be the degree ot thir diminution, he considered with himself, that if tfcc motin he retained in her orbit by the force of gravity, no doubt the primary planets .ire carried about tlie sun by the like power; and by comparing the periods of the several planets... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 686
...from what it is here." To make an estimate what might be the degree of this diminution, he considered, that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force...no doubt the primary planets are carried about the sun by the like power ; and, by comparing the periods of the several planets with their distances from... | |
 | James Smith - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 684
...strength from what it is here." To make an estimate of the degree of this diminution, he considered, that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force of gravity, no doubt the primary planets were retained in their orbits by a similar gravitation towards the sun; and by comparing the periods... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 530
...from that which it exerts near the surface. To estimate the degree of this diminution, he considered that if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force of gravity, the primary planets are undoubtedly retained in theirs by a similar power; and by comparing the several... | |
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To make an estimate what might be the degree of this diminution, he considered with himself that, if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force of gravity, no doubt the primary planets are carried round the sun by the like power. And, by comparing... 
