 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 366 pages
...that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle; the earth, instead of describing the line AC, as in the...velocity in the earth which increases the danger. Mrs. B. And there is yet another danger, of which you are not aware. Observe, that as the earth approaches... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand) - Physics - 1821 - 350 pages
...that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle ; the earth, instead of describing the line AC, as in the...approaching nearer and nearer the sun till we fall inft> it : for its attraction increases as we adVance towards it, and produces an accelerated velocity... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1826 - 308 pages
...that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle ; the earth, instead of describing the line AC, as in the former figure, will approach nearei the sun in the line A B. s Caroline. Under these circumstances, I see not what is to prevent... | |
 | Physics - 1832 - 642 pages
...former figure, will approach nearer the sun in the line A B. Under these circumstances, it will be asked what is to prevent our approaching nearer and nearer...its attraction increases as we advance towards it. There also seems to be another danger. As the earth approaches the sun, the direction of its motion... | |
 | Physics - 1832 - 640 pages
...that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle ; the earth instead of describing the line AC, as in the...figure, will approach nearer the sun in the line A B. Under these circumstances, it will be asked what is to prevent our approaching nearer and nearer the... | |
 | 1832 - 650 pages
...former figure, will approach nearer the sun in the line A B. Under these circumstances, it will be asked what is to prevent our approaching nearer and nearer the sun till we fall into it ; for ils attraction increases as we advance towards it. There also seems to be another danger. As the earth... | |
 | Ireland commissioners of nat. educ - 1835 - 398 pages
...that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle ; the earth instead of describing the line AC, as in the...figure, will approach nearer the sun in the line A B. Under these circumstances it will be asked, what is to prevent our approaching nearer and nearer the... | |
 | Mrs. Marcet (Jane Haldimand), John Lauris Blake - Astronomy - 1836 - 540 pages
...that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle ; the earth, instead of describing the line AC, as in the...produces an accelerated velocity in the earth which augments the danger. MRS. B. And there is yet another danger, of which you are not aware. Observe,... | |
 | Readers (Elementary) - 1836 - 424 pages
...that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle ; the earth instead of describing the line AC, as in the former figure, will approach nearer the sun iu the line A B. Under these circumstances it will be asked, what is to prevent our approaching nearer... | |
 | Jane Marcet - 1839 - 544 pages
...that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle ; the earth, instead of describing the line AC, as in the...former figure, will approach nearer the sun in the line AB. CAROLINE. Under these circumstances, I see not what is to prevent our approaching nearer and nearer... | |
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A* (fig. 3.) its projectile force should not have given it a velocity sufficient to counterbalance that of gravity, so as to enable these powers conjointly to carry it round the sun in a circle; the earth, instead of describing the line AC, as in the... 
