| William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 416 pages
...is a solitary example, so far as we know, of such an appendage to a planet. These circular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primary planets, are all kept going by the attraction of the respective central bodies, which restrains... | |
| William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 298 pages
...is a solitary example, so far as we know, of such an appendage to a planet. These circular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primary planets, are all kept going by the attraction of the respective central bodies, which restrains... | |
| 1834 - 438 pages
...the planets from the sun and of the satellites from their primaries, and the average or mean times of revolution of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries. By the mean time of revolution, we mean the average of a large number of revolutions, one... | |
| Natural theology - 1836 - 566 pages
...is a solitary example, so far as we know, of such an appendage to a planet. These circular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primary planets, are all kept going by the attraction of the respective central bodies, which restrains... | |
| Technology - 1837 - 538 pages
...BY JAMES a! Astronomical Society.) The following tables contain the number of years or revolutions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries during the above period, with the length of the year for each planet, also the period occupied... | |
| William Benjamin Carpenter - Astronomy - 1843 - 604 pages
...universal attraction into its consequences, we shall find that it not only produces the regular motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, but that it must also occasion irregularitiet resulting from the action of these bodies... | |
| David Brewster - 1855 - 518 pages
...of Mathematics at Pisa, in his work on the theory of Jupiter's Satellites.2 He considers the motions of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their primaries, as produced by some virtue residing in the central body. In speaking of the motion of bodies... | |
| George Combe - 1857 - 348 pages
...produce a perpetual motion ; but the Supernatural Power appears to have found no difficulty in doing so. The revolution of the planets round the sun, and of the satellites round their principal planets, are examples in point. We comprehend the laws which govern these evolutions, and... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 612 pages
...same force which brings an apple to the ground also prevents the moon from parting company with us. Newton was, therefore, authorised to assert that the...ENGLISH GENTLEMAN'S OWN PROFESSION. THE belief, once exlant, that no person with a claim to be regarded as nobly born, could possibly follow any other profession... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1868 - 680 pages
...to the ground also prevents the moon from parting company with us. Newton was, therefore, anthorised to assert that the planets are drawn by weight, or...gravitate, towards each other, in obedience to the magnifiaient law which is known in science as universal attraction or gravitation, first revealed through... | |
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