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 127
uld 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 that bodies will always tendto fall in towards the centre of the earth ; thus in New 112 Star-Land. Zealand, at the opposite… … Fisr. 42. —An Iron Ball and a Cork fall in the same time. balloon, a body released will fall towards the earths centre.Of course we can only ascend some live or six miles high,even in the most buoyant of balloons ; but we know thatthe attraction by which bodies are pulled downwardstowards the earth…
Astronomy
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