The Boston school compendium of natural and experimental philosophy .. (1837)
Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 · Boston : Marsh, Capen & Lyon · leaf 208
ing thesame quantity of space.Thus, the spaces E S A,A S B, D S F, &c. are allsupposed to be equal. Nowifthe earth, in the space ofone month will move in itsorbit from E to A, it willin another month movefrom A to B, and in thethird month from B to C,&c; and thus will describe(or rather… … be explained by the same figure.The Earth in its progress from Thus:FtoL being constantly actuated by the suns attraction, must, (as is the case with a stone when fallingto the earth,) (See No. 110,) move with an accelerated motion.At L, the suns attraction becomes stronger, on account of the…
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