 | Thomas Thomson - Chemistry - 1810 - 372 pages
...united together, and kept in combination. This force has received the name of affinity. All the great bodies which constitute the solar system are urged...other by a force which preserves them in. their orbits and regulates their motions. This force has received the name of attraction. Newton demonstrated that... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 688 pages
...can be obtained from this explanation. \_Punlolugiu, CHAP. X. CHEMICAL AFFINITY. 1. /\LL the great bodies which constitute the solar system are urged...other by a force which preserves them in their orbits, and regulates their motions. This force has received the name of attraction. Its nature is unknown... | |
 | Edward T W. Polehampton - 1815 - 712 pages
...can be obtained from this explanation. \_Pantologia, CHAP. X. CHEMICAL AFFINITY. 1. /\F,T, the great bodies which constitute the solar system are urged...other by a force which preserves them in their orbits, and regulates their motions. This force has received the name of attraction. Iti nature is unknown... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 710 pages
...satisfaction can be obtained from this explanation. [Pantologia. CHAP. X. CHEMICAL AFFINITY. 1. A rL the great bodies which constitute the solar system are urged...each other by a force which preserves them in their orhits, and regulates their motions. This force has received the name of attraction. Its nature is... | |
 | Robert Hooper - Medicine - 1817 - 886 pages
...power of attraction really exists is obvious from the slightest view ot'the phenomena of nature. It.is proved with mathematical certainty that the celestial,...be evinced by means of the following experiments. First. — If we place two or more globules of mercury on a dry glass or earthen plate, and push them... | |
 | Hewson Clarke, John Dougall - Drawing - 1817 - 928 pages
...great bodies constituting the system of which our earth is a part, and of which the sun is the centre, are urged towards each other by a force which preserves them in their orbits, and regulates all their notions. This force we call attraction as i(- the bodies were mutually towards... | |
 | 1821 - 468 pages
...of the power which produces combinations." The following is the incipient sentence. " All the great bodies which constitute the solar system, are urged...other by a force which preserves them in their orbits and regulates their motions." The force which urges them together, preserves them in their orbits!... | |
 | 1839
...are questions beyond the reach of human understanding ; but its existence is nevertheless certain. That the power of attraction really exists is obvious...force which preserves them in their orbits. It is farther proved beyond any doubt, that this planetary attraction is possessed not only by the heavenly... | |
 | Richard Yeo - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1999 - 904 pages
...united together, and kept in combination. This force has received the name of affinity. All the great bodies which constitute the solar system are urged towards each other by a force which preserve« them in their orbits, and regulates their motions. This force has received the name of attraction.... | |
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... largely to this change ; but the instances of the abuse of spirits are so innumerable, and those of this surprising combustion are so extremely rare, that very little satisfaction can be obtained from this explanation. 