A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an Explanation of the Terms, and an Account of the Several Subjects, Comprised Under the Heads Mathemetics, Astronomy, and Philosophy Both Natural and Experimental; with an Historical Account of the Rise, Progress and Present State of These Sciences; Also Memoirs of the Lives and Writings of the Most Eminent Authors, Both Ancient and Modern, who by Their Discoveries Or Improvements Have Contributed to the Advancement of Them, Volume 2 |
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... gravity , with great applause . After this he quitted the university , and re- tired to a country - seat of his uncle , who had the care of his education , his parents having died while he was very young . Here he spent two or three ...
... gravity , with great applause . After this he quitted the university , and re- tired to a country - seat of his uncle , who had the care of his education , his parents having died while he was very young . Here he spent two or three ...
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... gravity : a question which had been given out the former year , without receiving any solution . He had only 10 days to draw this paper up , and could not find leisure to transcribe a fair copy ; so that the Paris edition of it is ...
... gravity : a question which had been given out the former year , without receiving any solution . He had only 10 days to draw this paper up , and could not find leisure to transcribe a fair copy ; so that the Paris edition of it is ...
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... gravity , but from the surface : as ex- perience teaches us , that the magnetic power resides chiefly , if not wholly , in the surfaces of the loadstone and iron ; without any particular relation to any centre whatever . The proportion ...
... gravity , but from the surface : as ex- perience teaches us , that the magnetic power resides chiefly , if not wholly , in the surfaces of the loadstone and iron ; without any particular relation to any centre whatever . The proportion ...
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... gravity , hardness , flexibility , figure , size , & c ; and from the various compositions and combinations of which , he thinks , arise all the varieties in bodies as to colour , hard- ness , gravity , tastes , & c . But it is Sir ...
... gravity , hardness , flexibility , figure , size , & c ; and from the various compositions and combinations of which , he thinks , arise all the varieties in bodies as to colour , hard- ness , gravity , tastes , & c . But it is Sir ...
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... Gravity . -21 . Measure of a Degree of the Meridian at the Polar Circle . Besides these works , Maupertuis was author of a great number of interesting papers , particularly those printed in the Memoirs of the Paris and Berlin Academies ...
... Gravity . -21 . Measure of a Degree of the Meridian at the Polar Circle . Besides these works , Maupertuis was author of a great number of interesting papers , particularly those printed in the Memoirs of the Paris and Berlin Academies ...
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Page 106 - But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis ; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.
Page 106 - ... whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy, particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was tluit the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive force of bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered. And to us it is enough, that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which we have explained,...
Page 25 - And therefore that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles; compound Bodies being apt to break, not in the midst of solid Particles, but where those Particles are laid together, and only touch in a few Points.
Page 106 - Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes...
Page 106 - And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies attract one another at near distances, and cohere, if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater distances, as well repelling as attracting the...
Page 103 - To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and directed to contrary pans.
Page 106 - This most beautiful System of the Sun, Planets, and Comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.
Page 103 - The vis insita, or innate -force of matter, is a power of resisting, by which every body, as much as in it lies, endeavours to persevere in its present state, whether it be of rest, or of moving uniformly forward in a right line.
Page 25 - Earth composed of old worn Particles and Fragments of Particles, would not be of the same Nature and Texture now, with Water and Earth composed of entire Particles, in the Beginning. And therefore that Nature may be lasting, the Changes of corporeal Things are to be placed only in the various Separations and new Associations and Motions of these permanent Particles...
Page 95 - ... from the centre of the earth to which» •we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor even on the summits of the highest mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought.