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... centre , and diverging the more the further they go ; so that the nearer heavy body is to the centre , the more of these magnetic threads it receives ; and hence the more its motion is accelerated . a But leaving all such visionary ...
... centre , and diverging the more the further they go ; so that the nearer heavy body is to the centre , the more of these magnetic threads it receives ; and hence the more its motion is accelerated . a But leaving all such visionary ...
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... centre ; and that the time in which a heavy body falls to the earth to be divided into equal parts , indefinitely small . Let this force incline the body towards the earth's centre , while it moves in the first indefinitely small space ...
... centre ; and that the time in which a heavy body falls to the earth to be divided into equal parts , indefinitely small . Let this force incline the body towards the earth's centre , while it moves in the first indefinitely small space ...
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... centre of her disc opposite the earth , with a velocity about four times what is commonly given to a cannon - ball , or , about 8220 feet per second , would carry it beyond the centre into the sphere of the earth's ac- of attraction ...
... centre of her disc opposite the earth , with a velocity about four times what is commonly given to a cannon - ball , or , about 8220 feet per second , would carry it beyond the centre into the sphere of the earth's ac- of attraction ...
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... centre of the mirror , which , for the greater degree of accuracy , may be marked by a line across it . Then having measured the dis- tance DC , and ascertained the height of the eye of the observer , it will be , from the known laws of ...
... centre of the mirror , which , for the greater degree of accuracy , may be marked by a line across it . Then having measured the dis- tance DC , and ascertained the height of the eye of the observer , it will be , from the known laws of ...
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... centre of the sun or a star at its rising or setting ; so the amplitude is of two kinds ; eastern and western ... centre of the sun or star may be seen through the narrow slit , which is one of the sight vanes , exactly in the thread ...
... centre of the sun or a star at its rising or setting ; so the amplitude is of two kinds ; eastern and western ... centre of the sun or star may be seen through the narrow slit , which is one of the sight vanes , exactly in the thread ...
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