 | Isaac Todhunter - 1873 - 520 pagine
...attractions of homogeneous spheres near their surfaces, are as their diameters. Whence a sphere of oue foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the Earth, would attract a small body plac'd near its surface, with a force about 20000000 times less, than the Earth would -do... | |
 | De Volson Wood - 1882 - 232 pagine
...attraction of homogeneous spheres near their surfaces are (Prop. Ixxii.) as their diameters. Whence a sphere of one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the earth, would attract a small body placed near its surface with a force 20,000,000 times less than the earth would do if placed... | |
 | 1884 - 434 pagine
...FRS) — In a work erroneously attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, it is stated, that if two spheres, each one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the Earth, were distant by but the fourth part of an inch, they would not, even in spaces void of resistance,... | |
 | Benjamin Williamson, Francis Alexander Tarleton - 1885 - 488 pagine
...miles. 5. In a work erroneously attributed to Sir Isaac Newton; it is stated, that if two spheres, each one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the Earth, were distant by but the fourth part of an inch, they would not, even in spaces void of resistance,... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1900 - 190 pagine
...homogeneous spheres near their surfaces are (by prop. 72, book I) as their diameters. Whence a sphere of one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the earth, would attract a small bodv placed near its surface with a force 20,000,000 * times less than the earth would do if... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 pagine
...attraction of homogeneous spheres near their surfaces are (by prop. 72) as their diameters. Whence a sphere of one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the earth, would attract a small body placed near its surface with a force 20000000 times less than the earth would do if placed... | |
 | A.J. Kox, D.M. Siegel - 1995 - 416 pagine
...on earth? Newton's answer was that "terrestrial bodies do not count." He calculated that "a sphere of one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the earth, would attract a small body placed near its surface with a force 20000000 times less than the earth would do if placed... | |
 | Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach - 1996 - 463 pagine
...terrestrial bodies do not count," and the reason they do not he showed by a calculation: "a sphere of one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the earth, would attract a small body placed near its surface with a force 20000000 times less than the earth would PLATE XIII.... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier - 2003 - 312 pagine
...attraction of homogeneous spheres near their surfaces are (by prop. 72) as their diameters. Whence a sphere of one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the earth, would attract a small body placed near its surface with a force 20000OOO times less than the earth would do if placed... | |
 | Isaac Newton, I. Bernard Cohen - 2004 - 230 pagine
...intrad one another, contrary to fcn lble' the evidence of experiments in terreftrial bodies. But I anfwer, that the experiments in terreftrial bodies...fenfible effect. If two fuch fpheres were diftant but by ^ of an inch, they would not even in fpaces void of refinance, come together by the force of their... | |
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Whence a sphere of one foot in diameter, and of a like nature to the earth, would attract a small body placed near its surface with a force... 