Star-land : being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1891)
Ball, Robert S. (Robert Stawell), Sir, 1840-1913 · London ; Paris : Cassell & Co. · leaf 126
s lecture. It is related to a very simple matter.There is nothing more familiar than the fact that a heavybody will fall to the ground. Indeed, it hardly matterswhat the material of the body may be ; for you see I have The Moon. hi a small iron ball in one hand and a cork in the other(Fig. 42). I… … Fig. 41.—The Moon always turns the same face to the Earth. difference in the times of their falling, though I do notsay this would be true if they were dropped from the top ofthe Monument. In general we may say that bodies let dropwill fall sixteen feet in the first second. Wherever we go we find…
Astronomy
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