Orbs must [be] reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about which they revolve: and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth, and found them answer... The Monist - 199. lappuselaboja - 1914Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
| Carlos I. Calle - 2001 - 682 lapas
...discovery of the law of gravity. "All this was in the two plague years of 1665 &1666," Newton wrote, "for in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention, & minded Mathematics & Philosophy [ie physics] more than at any time since." It is not clear why Newton,... | |
| William H. Cropper - 2004 - 518 lapas
...recall the plague years 166566 with any degree of fondness. About fifty years later he wrote that "in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention & minded Mathematicks & Philosophy more then than at any time since." During these "miracle years,"... | |
| Christopher Hammond - 2001 - 352 lapas
...three-month visit to Cambridge from March 1666. It was during this time that Newton says of himself 'I was in the prime of my age for invention and minded Mathematicks and Philosophy more than at any time since.' These two years of intellectual achievement... | |
| Everett Mendelsohn - 2002 - 594 lapas
...when not propelled, or move right on until the next collision. And Newton said: "I ... compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her Orb with the...of the earth and found them answer pretty nearly." When a fellow human being risks everything, as Newton did, to ask himself, as Newton did, a decidable... | |
| John Stachel - 2001 - 572 lapas
...the squares of their distances from the centers about w[hi]ch they revolve: & thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her Orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth, & found them answer pretty nearly. All this was in the two plague years of 1665 & 1666. For in those... | |
| John Stillwell - 2004 - 576 lapas
...squares of their distance from the centers. ... All this was in the two plague years of 1665-1666. For in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention & minded Mathematicks & Philosophy more then [sic] at any time since. [Whiteside(1966), p. 32] In addition... | |
| David C. Cassidy, Gerald Holton, F. James Rutherford - 2002 - 857 lapas
...he concluded that he had, in his words, compared the force requisite to keep the moon in her orbit with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth, and found them to answer pretty nearly. Therefore, the force by which the moon is retained in its orbit becomes, at... | |
| Patricia Fara - 2002 - 390 lapas
...mathematical and scientific techniques. Half a century later, Newton boasted (perhaps a touch wistfully) that 'in those days I was in the prime of my age for invention & minded Mathematicks & Philosophy more than at any time since'. 5 This was when Newton supposedly... | |
| David C. Cassidy, Gerald Holton, F. James Rutherford - 2002 - 857 lapas
...extends out to the Moon, and that this same type of force might also act between the planets and the Sun. "All this was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666," he later wrote, "for in those days [at age 21 or 22] I was in the prime of my age for invention, and... | |
| Malcolm S. Longair - 2003 - 592 lapas
...the squares of their distances from the centres about which they revolve: and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her orb with the...pretty nearly. All this was in the two plague years 1665-6. For in those days 1 was in the prime of my age for invention and minded mathematics and philosophy... | |
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