 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
 | John Herman Randall (Jr.) - 1926 - 672 lapas
...to keep the moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth, and found them to answer pretty nearly. All this was in the two plague...was in the prime of my age for invention and minded Mathematicks and Philosophy more than at any time since.2 The thirty years that had passed since Galileo... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - 1960 - 596 lapas
...as the squares of their distances from the centers about wch they revolve: and thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her Orb with the...was in the prime of my age for invention, and minded Mathematicks and Philosophy more than at any time since. The calculus, the composition of light, the... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1980 - 428 lapas
...reasoning in 1666 could be determined by an easy test. The memorandum continues: '[I] thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her Orb with the...of the earth, and found them answer pretty nearly'. From the age of Newton to our own day, there has been a considerable discussion of this alleged early... | |
 | Edna Ernestine Kramer - 1982 - 790 lapas
...out certain calculations based on the actual motion of the moon. In his own words, "I compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her Orb with the...of gravity at the surface of the Earth, and found the answer pretty nearly." The "pretty nearly" may explain why he did not publicize the inverse-square... | |
 | Z. Bechler - 1982 - 264 lapas
...body in the solar system).16 In statement (b), Newton later alleged that (i) he 'thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her Orb with the...force of gravity at the surface of the earth' and (ii) found them to agree 'pretty nearly'. With respect to (i), even apart from the fact that Newton... | |
 | John Earman - 1983 - 494 lapas
...to violate this additional stricture. Newton was able to test his gravitation law by comparing "the force requisite to keep the moon in her orb with the...force of gravity at the surface of the earth" and finding them "to answer pretty nearly." By equating the centripetal force acting on the moon with gravitational... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 lapas
...reciprocally as the squares of their distances from the centers about wch 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... | |
 | Rutherford Aris, Howard Ted Davis, Roger H. Stuewer - 1983 - 355 lapas
...began to think of gravity extending to the moon he compared the force holding the moon in its orbit with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth and found them to "answer pretty nearly."1 From these combined sources have emerged the myth of Newton's twenty-year... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1985 - 270 lapas
...sunlight is really composed of all colors from violet to red. "All this," Newton said later in life, "was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666, for...for invention, and minded mathematics and philosophy [science] more than at any other time since." Newton returned to Cambridge in 1667 and was elected... | |
 | Bernard Cohen - 1985 - 276 lapas
...1000 cm/sec 2 . Newton said, in the autobiographical memorandum I have quoted, that he "compared the force requisite to keep the moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth." in its orb." In one minute of time it will descend through the same distance that it does when this... | |
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