 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
 | 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... | |
 | Hilde de Ridder-Symoens, Walter Rüegg - 1992 - 724 lapas
...as the squares of their distances from the centres about which they revolve: &C thereby compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her Orb with the...at the surface of the earth, and found them answer pretiy nearly. All this was in the plague years of 1665 and 1666. For in those days I was in the prime... | |
 | Martin Garrett - 2004 - 284 lapas
...tree in his orchard, "began to think of gravity extending to the orb of the Moon" and "compared the force requisite to keep the Moon in her orb with the force of gravity at the surface of the Earth." (The apple tree planted at the front of Trinity in the 1950s is descended from one in the Lincolnshire... | |
 | Dan Falk - 2004 - 262 lapas
...forced the university to shut down, and Newton — now in his early 20s — returned to the family home. "In those days I was in the prime of my age for invention," he would later recall, "and minded mathematics and philosophy more than at any time since." During... | |
 | William H. McNeely - 2005 - 600 lapas
...gravity extending to the orbit of the moon — compared the force requisite to extending to the moon with the force of gravity at the surface of the earth and found them to answer pretty nearly." At the same time, his work on optics led to his explanation of the composition... | |
 | Gale E. Christianson - 2005 - 160 lapas
...the two plague years of 1665 and 1666 decades later, he wrote the French scholar Pierre Des Maizeaux, "For in those days I was in the prime of my age of invention and minded mathematics and philosophy more than at any time since."2 William Whiston,... | |
 | Barton E. Dahneke - 2006 - 692 lapas
...as the squares of their distances from the centers about which 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 [to] answer pretty nearly.14 The reciprocal square of distance or separation on which... | |
 | George F. Simmons - 2007 - 386 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...gravity at the surface of the earth, and found them to answer pretty nearly. All this was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666, for in those days I... | |
 | Doris Simonis - 2007 - 322 lapas
...laws of universal gravitation and of motion. Newton wrote of his accomplishments during this period, "All this was in the two plague years of 1665 and 1666, for in those days I was in my prime of age for invention, and minded mathematics and philosophy more than at any time since."... | |
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