The Cambridge course of elementary natural philosophy; being the demonstrations of the propositions in mechanics and hydrostatics in which those persons who are not candidates for honours are examined for the degree of B.A (1844)
Snowball, John Charles, d. 1855 · Cambridge [Eng.] T. Stevenson; [etc., etc.] · leaf 41
ar to CD,and GF vertical. Now since (by Def. Art. 40,) if G be supported thebody remains at rest when turned round the line into anyposition, the vertical pressure, therefore, which arises from * That is to say; If there be a line round which a body can be madeto revolve, such that if when the line… … MECHANICS. 39 the weight of the matter composing the body, must alwayspass through G, or else that pressure could not be renderedinoperative (as it is supposed to be) by G being maintainedat rest. Wherefore, in the position of the body representedin the figure, this pressure will act…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-102-72.webp)
