 | 1843 - 812 pagine
...denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause the gravity of those great bodies towards one another, and of their parts towards the bodies ; every body...the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer?" Very recently, Dr. Roget f and Mosotti J have shown how, on the assumption of an etherial medium, the... | |
 | Jonathan Pereira - 1843 - 158 pagine
...denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause the gravity of those great bodies towards one another, and of their parts towards the bodies ; every body...the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer?" Very recently, Dr. Roget t and Mosotti J have shown how, on the assumption of an ethereal medium, the... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1843 - 1198 pagine
...causing the gravity of those great bodies towards one another, and of their parts towards each other, every body endeavouring to go from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer." (Optics, Queries 20, 21.) The failure of this hypothesis has been already exposed by Mr. Whewell, who... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1852 - 674 pagine
...greater distances it grows denser and denser perpetually, and thereby causes the gravity of these great bodies towards each other, and of their parts towards...the bodies, every body endeavouring to go from the den.er parts of this ether towards the rarer. All this however he proposes only as a conjecture, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1856 - 724 pagine
...obeying two opposite forces, circudenser perpetually, and thereby causes the gravity of these great bodies towards each other, and of their parts towards...every body endeavouring to go from the denser parts of this ether towards the rarer. All this however he proposes only as a conjecture, and leaves the truth... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1856 - 556 pagine
...bodies towards one another, and of their parts towards the bodies ; every body endeavouring to recede from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer ? " For if this medium be supposed rarer within the sun's body than at its surface, and rarer there than at the hundredth part... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1857 - 712 pagine
...perpetually, and thereby causes the gravity ol these great bodies towards each other, and of tieir parts towards the bodies, every body endeavouring to go from the denser parts of this ether towards the rarer. All this however he proposes only as a conjecture, and leaves the truth... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pagine
...causing the gravity of those great bodies toward one another, and of their parts toward each other, every body endeavouring to go from the denser parts of the medium toward the rarer." (Optics, Queries 20, 21.) The failure of this hypothesis has been already exposed... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - 1860 - 540 pagine
...bodies towards one another, and of their parts towards the bodies; every body endeavouring to recede from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer ? " For if this medium be supposed rarer within the sun's body than at its surface, and rarer there than at the hundredth part... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1886 - 284 pagine
...those great bodies towards one another and of their parts towards the bodies, every body endeavoring to go from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer 1 " One of Newton's contemporaries said that the two suppositions of an attractive faculty and a perfect... | |
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... much rarer within the dense bodies of the sun, stars, planets, and comets, than in the empty celestial spaces between them ? And in passing from them to great distances, doth it not grow denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause the gravity... 
