The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and General Literature, 10. köideA. et C. Black, 1879 - 856 pages |
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... earth has a diurnal motion of rotation - the first as " absurd in philosophy , and formally heretical , because expressly con- trary to Holy Scripture , " and the second as open to the same censure in philosophy , and at least erroneous ...
... earth has a diurnal motion of rotation - the first as " absurd in philosophy , and formally heretical , because expressly con- trary to Holy Scripture , " and the second as open to the same censure in philosophy , and at least erroneous ...
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... earth's surface , produced by the motion of rotation . To this notion , which took its rise in a con- fusion of thought , he attached capital importance , and he treated with scorn Kepler's suggestion that a certain occult attraction of ...
... earth's surface , produced by the motion of rotation . To this notion , which took its rise in a con- fusion of thought , he attached capital importance , and he treated with scorn Kepler's suggestion that a certain occult attraction of ...
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... earth's double motion ; the to terrestrial distances , infinite velocity . second was adopted for the purpose of rebutting an anti- Copernican argument founded on the planetary analogies of those erratic subjects of the sun . Within two ...
... earth's double motion ; the to terrestrial distances , infinite velocity . second was adopted for the purpose of rebutting an anti- Copernican argument founded on the planetary analogies of those erratic subjects of the sun . Within two ...
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... earth ; that , in a vacuum , all bodies would fall with equal velocities ; that the " inertia of matter " implies the continuance of motion , as well as the permanence of rest ; and that the substance of the heavenly bodies is equally ...
... earth ; that , in a vacuum , all bodies would fall with equal velocities ; that the " inertia of matter " implies the continuance of motion , as well as the permanence of rest ; and that the substance of the heavenly bodies is equally ...
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... earth's magnetic force . Each of these forces is proportional to the magnetic moment of the galvanometer needle , and consequently the ratio of the forces , on which depends the magnitude of the deflexion of the needle , is independent ...
... earth's magnetic force . Each of these forces is proportional to the magnetic moment of the galvanometer needle , and consequently the ratio of the forces , on which depends the magnitude of the deflexion of the needle , is independent ...
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