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" And though this increase of density may at great distances be exceeding slow, yet if the elastic force of this medium be exceeding great it may suffice to impel bodies from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer with all that power which we... "
An Enquiry After Philosophy and Theology: Tending to Show when and Whence ... - Page 287
by Robert Spearman - 1755 - 425 pages
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Opticks:: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ...

Isaac Newton - Optics - 1730 - 432 pages
...diftances be exceeding flow, yet if the elaftick force of this Medium be exceeding great, it may furBce to impel Bodies from the 'denfer parts of the Medium...rarer , with all that power which we call Gravity. And that the elaftick force of this Medium is exceeding great, may be gather 'd from the fwiftnefs...
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Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and ...

Isaac Newton - Light - 1730 - 403 pages
...beyond. And though this Increafe of denfity may at great diftances be exceeding flow, yet if the elaftick force -of this Medium be exceeding great, it may fuffice...rarer , with all that power which we call Gravity. And that the elaftick force of this Medium is exceeding great, may be gathered from the fwiftnefs of...
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Opera, en anglois, avec notes par P. Shaw, Volume 1

Robert Boyle - 1738 - 788 pages
...encreafe of denfity fhou'dftop any where. And tho' this increafe of denfity may, at great diftances, be exceeding flow, yet if the elaftic force of this medium be exceeding great, it may fuffke to impel bodies from the denfer parts of the medium towards the rarer with all that power which...
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An Essay on the First Principles of Natural Philosophy: Wherein the Use of ...

William Jones - Physics - 1762 - 324 pages
...fun; but to increafe in denfity through all the diftances from the fun to Saturn and beyond ; and that it may fuffice to impel bodies from the denfer parts of the medium toward the rarer, with all that power which we call gravity f. All this is very juft: the preffure...
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Philosophical essays

Richard Lovett - Compasses (Mathematical instruments) - 1766 - 610 pages
...from the Sun to Saturn and beyond. And ' tho' this increafe of Denfity may, at great diŁ~ * tances, be exceeding flow, yet if the elaftic. « force of...fuffice to impel Bodies from the denfer ' parts of this Medium towards the rarer, with ' all that Power which we call Gravity, And ' that the elaftic...
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An Essay on the Investigation of the First Principles of Nature: Together ...

Felix O'Gallagher - Astronomy - 1784 - 420 pages
...though " this increafe of cienfity may at fome di" ftances be exceeding flow, yet if the elaf" tic force of this medium be exceeding " great, it may...rarer, with all that power which we call " gravity." Such is Sir Ifaac Newton's conjecture concerning the material caufe of gravity, and the mechanical...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 13

1809 - 530 pages
...increafe of denfity/ he adds, ' may be exceeding flow at great diftances, yet if the elaftic force of the medium be exceeding great, it may fuffice to impel...rarer, with all that power which we call Gravity. ' Optics, Query 21. t5V. Various objections may be undoubtedly offered to this hypothefis j and Mr...
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Observations on the hypotheses which have been assumed to account for the ...

Samuel Vince - Gravitation - 1806 - 72 pages
...the elastic force of this medium be exceeding great, it may suffice to impel bodies from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer, with all that power which we call gravity." And he gives the following reason for supposing that there is such a medium. " A thermometer in vacuo...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 13

English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...increafe of denfity,' he adds, ' may be exceeding flow at great diftances, yet if the elaftic force of the medium be exceeding great, it may fuffice to impel...rarer, with all that power which we call Gravity.' Optics, Query 21. &c. Various objections may be undoubtedly offered to this hypothefis ; and Mr Vince...
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The Life of Sir Isaac Newton

David Brewster - Physicists - 1831 - 328 pages
...bodies, so as to make them continually approach to one another, the body being impelled from the denser parts of the medium towards the rarer with all that power which we call gravity. In employing this medium to explain the nature of light, Newton does not suppose, with Descartes, Hooke,...
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