The mathematical principles of natural philosophy (1803)
Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727, Motte, Andrew, d. 1734, Davis, William, 1771-1807, Emerson, William, 1701-1782, Machin, John, d. 1751, Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727. De mundi systemate. English · London, Printed for H. D. Symonds · leaf 37
ths time; and lefs fpheres willcome together at a rate yet flower, viz. in the proportion oftheir diameters. Nay, whole mountains will not be fufficient^to produce any fenfible effect. A mountain of an hemifpheri-cal figure, three miles high, and fix broad, will not, by its at-traction, draw the… … THE SYSTEM OF THE WORLD. £3 Let ABCD (p. 27, vol. 1) reprefent the globe ofthe earth cut by any plane AC into two parts ACB^ andACD. The part ACB bearing upon the part ACD preffes itwith its whole weight; nor can the part ACD fuftain thispreffure, and continue unmoved, if it is not oppofed by…
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