The Life of Sir Isaac NewtonGall & Inglis, 1900 - 346 páginas |
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... Halley in the year 1700 ; but, either from having mislaid the manuscript, or from attaching no value to the invention, he never communicated it to the Royal Socioty, and it remained among his papers till after his * See tho twenty-ninth ...
... Halley in the year 1700 ; but, either from having mislaid the manuscript, or from attaching no value to the invention, he never communicated it to the Royal Socioty, and it remained among his papers till after his * See tho twenty-ninth ...
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... Halley urges him to publish his Principia — His Principles of Natural Philosophy — Proceedings of the Royal Society on this Subject — The Principia appears in 1687 — General Account of it, and of the Discoveries it contains — Tfiey meet ...
... Halley urges him to publish his Principia — His Principles of Natural Philosophy — Proceedings of the Royal Society on this Subject — The Principia appears in 1687 — General Account of it, and of the Discoveries it contains — Tfiey meet ...
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... the duplicate proportion,* or as the * " But fur the duplicate proportion, I gathered it from Kepler's theorem about twonty years ago." — Nowton's Letter to Halley, July 14th 1686. - square! of their distances from the sun. ' In.
... the duplicate proportion,* or as the * " But fur the duplicate proportion, I gathered it from Kepler's theorem about twonty years ago." — Nowton's Letter to Halley, July 14th 1686. - square! of their distances from the sun. ' In.
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... Halley,j- to discover " the theorem by which he afterwards examined the ellipsis," and to demonstrate the celebrated proposition, that a planet acted upon by an attractive force varying inversely as the square of the distance, will ...
... Halley,j- to discover " the theorem by which he afterwards examined the ellipsis," and to demonstrate the celebrated proposition, that a planet acted upon by an attractive force varying inversely as the square of the distance, will ...
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... over, not finding the means of doing it." In January, 1683 — 4, Dr. Halley had concluded from Kepler's Law of the Periods * Commerdum Eputolicum, No. 7L and Distances, that the centripetal force decreased in the reciprocal.
... over, not finding the means of doing it." In January, 1683 — 4, Dr. Halley had concluded from Kepler's Law of the Periods * Commerdum Eputolicum, No. 7L and Distances, that the centripetal force decreased in the reciprocal.
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