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... TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 33 46 TATION 51 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS HALLEY , EULER , LA- GRANGE ...
... TRUE SOLAR SYSTEM - TYCHO BRAHE - KEPLER · 6. GALILEO AND THE TELESCOPE - NOTIONS OF GRAVITY BY HORROCKS , ETC. 7. SIR ISAAC NEWTON - LAW OF UNIVERSAL GRAVI- 23 33 46 TATION 51 8. NEWTON'S SUCCESSORS HALLEY , EULER , LA- GRANGE ...
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... true , then A is true . To many people our inability to understand all that is contained in statements B , C , and D , without the cumbrous process of a mathematical demonstration , proves the feebleness of the human mind as a logical ...
... true , then A is true . To many people our inability to understand all that is contained in statements B , C , and D , without the cumbrous process of a mathematical demonstration , proves the feebleness of the human mind as a logical ...
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... true , it shows a knowledge that the vault of heaven is a complete sphere , and that stars are shining at mid - day , although eclipsed by the sun's brightness . It is also asserted , in the book called Chu - King , that in the time of ...
... true , it shows a knowledge that the vault of heaven is a complete sphere , and that stars are shining at mid - day , although eclipsed by the sun's brightness . It is also asserted , in the book called Chu - King , that in the time of ...
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... true , it means that in the twenty - second century B.C. some rule for calculating eclipses was in use . Here , again , patient observation would easily lead to the detection of the eighteen - year cycle known to the Chaldæans as the ...
... true , it means that in the twenty - second century B.C. some rule for calculating eclipses was in use . Here , again , patient observation would easily lead to the detection of the eighteen - year cycle known to the Chaldæans as the ...
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... true a representation of the relative motions in the solar system as when we suppose the sun to be fixed and the earth to revolve . The cumbrous system advocated by Ptolemy answered its purpose , enabling him to predict astronomical ...
... true a representation of the relative motions in the solar system as when we suppose the sun to be fixed and the earth to revolve . The cumbrous system advocated by Ptolemy answered its purpose , enabling him to predict astronomical ...
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