 | Tom Telescope - Science - 1808 - 188 pages
...heavy as the fives-ball, and yet moves equally swift, it hath double the quantity of motion ; and sp in proportion. All bodies have a natural tendency,...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... | |
 | William Pinnock - Emblems - 1830 - 520 pages
...attraction is the cause, power, or principle, by which all bodies mutually tend towards each other. It is that universal disposition of matter which inclines,...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... | |
 | William Pinnock - Emblems - 1830 - 576 pages
...attraction is the cause, power, or principle, by which all bodies mutually tend towards each other. It is that universal disposition of matter which inclines,...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... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...be supported, however, it may be situated in other respects. Or, to render this more plain, gravity is that universal disposition of matter, which inclines or carries the lesser parts towards the centre or greater part, which is called weight or gravitation in the lesser body,... | |
 | William Pinnock - 1847 - 134 pages
...rectilineal course which it would otherwise have continued to move in. 10. GRAVITY, or ATTRACTION, is that universal disposition of matter, which inclines,...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... | |
 | Thomas Christensen - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 350 pages
...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,... | |
 | Thomas Christensen - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 350 pages
...gravity as contained in one of the many popularizers of Newtonian science from the eighteenth century: Gravity, my young friends, is that universal disposition...matter which inclines or carries the lesser part; this is called weight or gravitation in the lesser body, but attraction in the greater, because it... | |
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Gravity, my young friends, is that universal disposition of matter which inclines or carries the lesser part towards the centre of the greater part, which is called weight or gravitation in the lesser body, but attraction in the greater, because it draws,... 