 | Thomas Mortimer - 1808 - 496 pages
...found sensibly diminished at tbe remotest distance from the centre of the earth to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor...reasonable to conclude, that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought. Why not as high as the moon ? said he to himself ; and if so, her... | |
 | John Watkins - Authors, English - 1808 - 768 pages
...be sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the centre of the earth to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor...reasonable to conclude, that this power must extend much farther than is usually imagined ; " and why not as high as the moon?" said he to himself; " and if... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...found sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the centre of the earth to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor on the summits of the highest mountains, it was reasonable tp conclude that this power must extend much further than wae usually thought. " Why... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 788 pages
...sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the centre of the earth, to which we can rise, ceither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor on the...mountains it appeared to him reasonable to conclude, that thit power tnust extend much further than i* usually thought— '• Why not as high as the moon ?"... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 830 pages
...earth, to which we can rise, neither at the tups of the loftiest buildings, nor on the summits oí the highest mountains it appeared to him reasonable to conclude, that this porter must extend much further than ¡к usually thought.—" Why not as high as the moon ?" said... | |
 | James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 684 pages
...sensibly diminished at the most remote distance from the centre of the earth to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor...conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought. Then a train of thought arose in his mind, " Might it not extend as far as the... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...be sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the .centre of the earth to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor...reasonable to conclude, that this power must extend much farther than is usually thought. " Why not as high as the moon ?" said he to himself; " and if so,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...be sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the centre of the earth, to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor...reasonable to conclude, that this power must extend much farther than is usually thought. " Why not as high as the moon ?" said he to himself; " and if so,... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 358 pages
...be sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the centre of the earth, to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor...reasonable to conclude, that this power must extend much farther than is usually thought. " Why not as high as the moon ?" said he to himself; "and if so, her... | |
 | Francis Wayland - Sermons, American - 1833 - 388 pages
...power sensibly diminished at the remotest distances from the centre of the earth Tto which we can rise, it appeared to him reasonable, to conclude that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought. Why not as high as the moon, said he to himself, and if so, her *... | |
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As he sat alone in a garden, he fell into a speculation on the power of gravity : that as this power is not found sensibly diminished at the remotest distance from the centre of the earth to which» •we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest... 
