 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 280 pages
...direction is to the centre of it, the more firmly does a body stand ; and the narrower the base of a body, and the nearer the line of direction is to the side of it, the more easily it is overthrown. Observation. Hence, a sphere is easily rolled along; and a narrow or pointed body... | |
 | Leonard Dunnell Gale - Physics - 1838 - 308 pages
...attempts to rise too soon before the body is sufficiently advanced he falls back again. LIX. The broader the base, and the nearer the line of direction is to the centre of it, the more firmly does a body stand ; and the narrower the base of a body, and the nearer... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1838 - 348 pages
...the centre of gravity, with the base, and thereby remove the danger of oversetting. LVI. The broader the base, and the nearer the line of direction is to the centre of it, the more firmly does a body stand ; and the narrower the base of a body, and the nearer... | |
 | James Smith (author of the Panorama of science and art.) - Industrial arts - 1859 - 964 pages
...and the nearer the line of direction is to the middle of it, the more firmly does the body stand; so, on the contrary, the narrower the base, and the nearer...of it, the more easily may the body be overthrown, because a less change of position is sufficient to remove the line of direction out of the base, and... | |
 | Thomas Dick - Philosophy and religion - 1869 - 664 pages
...stands, the body cannot fall j but if it fall without the base, the body will be overturned. The broader the base, and the nearer the line of direction is to the centre of it, the more firmly does a body stand, and the narrower the base of a body, and the nearer... | |
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The broader the base, and the nearer the line of direction is to the centre of it, the more firmly does a body stand, and the narrower the base of a body, and the nearer the line of direction is to the side of it, the more easily will it be overthrown. 
