A voyage in space; a course of six lectures "adapted to a juvenile auditory" delivered at the Royal Institution at Xmas 1913 (1915)
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861-1930 · London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 44
n we are twice as near the nearest point of it; and there is a good deal to be said for measuring in this way, since the very point we are illustrating is that gravity is so immensely greater when we are close to the attracting body than when we are far away; and therefore we might expect that the… … 24 A VOYAGE IN SPACE establishment of the Law of Gravity had to wait allthat time in consequence, just as I have been keepingyou waiting to see the end of the experiment. Itwas only after twenty years thinking, off and on,that Newton discovered that we must measure allour distances from the centre…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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