 | 1806 - 504 pages
...revolve about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and to compare and adjust all these things together in so great a variety of bodies, argues that cause to be not blind or fortuitous, but very well skilled in mechanics and geometry. To your third query I answer, thai... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 pages
...revolve about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and to compare and adjust all these things together, in so great a variety of bodies,...not blind and fortuitous, but very well skilled in mechanicks and geometry. " To your third query. I answer, that it may be represented that the Sun may,... | |
 | David Brewster - 1831 - 328 pages
...revolve about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and to compare and adjust all these things together in so great a variety of bodies, argues...in mechanics and geometry." In the second* letter, he admits that the spherical • Dated Jan. 17ih, IBM S. Y3 mass formed by the aggregation of particles... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 578 pages
...revolve about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and to compare and adjust all these things together, in so great a variety of bodies,...fortuitous, but very well skilled in mechanics and geometry. To your third query, I answer, that it may be represented that the sun may, by heating those planets... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 pages
...revolve about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and to compare and adjust all these things together, in so great a variety of bodies,...fortuitous, but very well skilled in mechanics and geometry. To your third query, I answer, that it maybe represented that the sun may, by heating those planets... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 474 pages
...distances, about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and 30 to compare and adjust all these things together, in so great a variety of bodies ;...fortuitous, but very well skilled in Mechanics and Geometry. 50 To your third Query, I answer, that it may be repre[se]nted that the Sun may, by heating those Planets... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 896 pages
...distances, about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and 30 to compare and adjust all these things together, in so great a variety of bodies ;...fortuitous, but very well skilled in Mechanics and Geometry. 50 To your third Query, I answer, that it may be repre[se]nted that the Sun may, by heating those Planets... | |
 | 1845 - 334 pages
...revolve about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and to compare and adjust all these things together in so great a variety of bodies, argues...but very well skilled in mechanics and geometry." In'the second* letter, he admits that the spherical • Dated Jan. 17th, 1892-3 .' Ya mass formed by... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 316 pages
...revolve about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and to compare and adjust all these things together in so great a variety of bodies, argues...particles would effect the figure of the space in which the matter was diffused, provided the matter descends directly downwards to that body, and the body... | |
 | George Grant - 1849 - 322 pages
...revolve about those quantities of matter in the central bodies ; and to compare and adjust all these things together in so great a variety of bodies, argues...mechanics and geometry." In the second letter, 17th Jan., 1 692-3, he admits that the spherical mass formed by the aggregation of the particles would effect... | |
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... powers resulting from thence; the several distances of the primary planets from the sun, and of the secondary ones from Saturn, Jupiter, and the earth ; and the velocities with which these planets could revolve about those quantities of matter in... 
