 | Willson Cryer - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 60
...highest mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than is usually thought. " Why not as high as the...influenced by it. Perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby ; and though the power of gravity is not sensibly weakened in the little change of distance... | |
 | T H. Howe - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude, that this power must extend much further than was usually thought : why not as high as the moon ? said...influenced by it ; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby. * * * Newton's superiority here was, that he conceived the celestial motions as distinctly... | |
 | William Whewell - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought : Why not as high as the moon? said...so, her motion must be influenced by it ; perhaps sho is retained in her orbit thereby.' The thought of cosmical gravitation was thus distinctly brought... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 580
...mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought : Why not as high as the moon ? said...influenced by it; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby." The thought of cosmical gravitation was thus distinctly brought into being ; and Newton's... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 622
...mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought : Why not as high as the moon ? said...influenced by it; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby." The thought of cosmical gravitation was thus distinctly brought into being ; and Newton's... | |
 | William Whewell - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought : Why not as high as the moon ? said he to himself; and if so, her motion must be influenqed by it; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby." The thought of cosmical gravitation... | |
 | William Whewell - 1859 - عدد الصفحات: 596
...conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought : Why not as high as the moon 3 said he to himself; and if so, her motion must be influenced by it ; perhaps she u retained in her orbit thereby." The thought of cosmical gravitation was thus distinctly brought into... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1869 - عدد الصفحات: 752
...mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought. ' Why not as high as the moon ? '...influenced by it; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby.' " Pemberton, View of Newton's Philosophy. Preface. Upon this suggestion, he proceeded to... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 108
...mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought : why not as high as the moon ? said...influenced by it; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby."— WHEWELI,, Hist, qfthelnd. Sciences, vol.1, b. vii., ch. ii., $ 8." mystic powers in the... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought. ' Why not as high as the moon ?'...influenced by it; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby.' " Upon this suggestion, he proceeded to the calculation of the deflection of the moon from... | |
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... from the centre of the earth to which» •we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor even on the summits of the highest mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much farther than was usually... 
