...correction, which you deserve, Tom Wilson, for your impertinence. Gravity, my young friends, is that universal disposition of matter which inclines or...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...

...is the cause, power, or principle, by which all bodies mutually tend towards each other. It is that universal disposition of matter which inclines, or...as it were, the LESSER BODY to it. Thus all bodies, on or near the Earth's surface, have a tendency or seeming inclination towards the centre; and, but...

...is the cause, power, or principle, by which all bodies mutually tend towards each other. It is that universal disposition of matter which inclines, or...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...

...that universal disposition of matter, which inclines or carries the lesser parts towards the centre or greater part, which is called weight or gravitation...as it were, the lesser body to it. Thus, all bodies on or near the earth's surface have a tendency or seeming inclination to descend towards its middle...

...rectilineal course which it would otherwise have continued to move in. 10. GRAVITY, or ATTRACTION, is that universal disposition of matter, which inclines, or...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...

...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,...