 | Charles Henry Wilkinson - Astronomy - 1799 - 390 pages
...reft are kept in equilibrio j this point is called the Centre of Gravity. A line drawn from this point towards the centre of the earth, is called the Line of Direction. In this line all bodies will defcend with equal velocity. When inclined bodies are fet upon an horizontal... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...supported, the body cannot fall ; because all its parts are in a perfect equilibrium about that point.* An imaginary line drawn from the centre of gravity of any body toward the centre of the and line of earth, is called the line of direction. In this direction. line... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Education - 1833 - 458 pages
...other ; and consequently, if this point be supported, the whole body will be at rest- and cannot fall. An imaginary line drawn from the centre of gravity...centre of the earth is called the line of direction. Bodies stand with firmness upon their bases when this line falls within the base ; but if the line... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Education - 1833 - 576 pages
...this point be supported, the whole body will be at rest, and cannot fall. An imaginary line dtawn. from the centre of gravity of any body towards the...centre of the earth is called the line of direction. Bodies stand with firmness upon their bases, when this line falls within the base ; but if the line... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1838 - 690 pages
...supported, the whole body wilt be at rest, and сашин fall. An imaginary line drawn from the centre uf gravity of any body towards the centre of the earth is called the line of direction. Bodies »land with firmness upon their bases, when this line falls wit'nn the baae ; but if the line... | |
 | Periodicals - 1839 - 272 pages
...where the centre of gravity is [situated in any solid, a perpendicular line drawn from such centre, to the centre of the earth, is called the line of direction ; and along this line every unsupported body endeavours to fall : if this line fall within the base of a... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Cosmology - 1850 - 684 pages
...other; and consequently, if this point be supported, the whole body will be at rest, and cannot fall. An imaginary line drawn from the centre of gravity...centre of the earth is called the line of direction. Bodies stand with firmness upon their bases, when this line falls within the base ; but if the line... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1850 - 964 pages
...point be supported, the whole body will be at rest, and cannot fall. An imaginary line drawn from tho centre of gravity of any body towards the centre of the earth a called the line of direction. Bodiej stand with firmness upon their bases, when this line falls ••... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1857 - 892 pages
...other; and consequently, if this point be supported, the whole body will be at rest, and cannot fall. An imaginary line drawn from the centre of gravity...centre of the earth is called the line of direction. Bodies stand with firmness upon their bases, when this line falls within the base ; but if the line... | |
 | Robert William Fraser - 1866 - 346 pages
...overset. But I must explain this to you, particularly. What I have called the line of direction, is a line from the centre of gravity of any body towards the centre of the earth, or perpendicularly downwards. Now as long as this line falls within the base on which the body stands,... | |
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Centre of gravity is that point of a body about which all its parts are in equilibria, or balance each other; and consequently, if this point be supported, the whole body will be at rest, and cannot fall. An imaginary line drawn from the centre of gravity... 
