Smith, Hamilton Lanphere, 1819-1903. [from old catalog] · Cleveland, M. C. Younglove and company · leaf 47
peed of 200,000 milesin one second ! And, quicker than this is the transmission ofthat mysterious influence, called gravitation, which acts with all-controlling force, through distances, utterly inconceivable to thehuman mind, causing the immense masses of the planetary orbsto rise and fall like… … We give above a representation of the earth, as it would probablyappear to a spectator removed to the distance of the moon. Thesame hemisphere of the moon is always turned towards the earth,this is caused by a revolution on itsaxis in the same time that itrevolves around the earth. Consequently,* a…
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