 Is not this Medium much rarer within the dense Bodies of the Sun, Stars, Planets and Comets, than in the empty celestial Spaces between them? And in passing from them to great distances, doth it not grow denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause...  The Circle of the Sciences: Mechanical philosophy - Page 13by William Somerville Orr - 1860Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Newton - Light - 1730 - 403 pages
...denfe Bodies, . at fome diftance from the Bodies ? 21. Is not this Medium much rarer within the denfe Bodies of. the Sun, Stars, Planets and Comets, than in the empty celeftial Spaces between them ? And in palling from 'them to great diflances, doth it not grow denfer... | |
 | Richard Lovett - Compasses (Mathematical instruments) - 1766 - 610 pages
...Ipace, which 'in his Optics he calls flLther. ' 20. ' This ./Ether is much rarer within the "" * denfe Bodies of the Sun, Stars, Planets, and * Comets, than in the empty celeftial ipace be* tween them ; and in parting from them to *- great diftances, it grows denfer and... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Philosophy - 1794 - 480 pages
...every where dispersed through space, which fluid he called aether. That this zther is much more rare within the dense bodies of the sun, stars, planets,...spaces between them ; and in passing from them to great distances, it perpetually grows denser and denser, and thereby causes the gravity of those bodies... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 570 pages
...325, he has hinted at the manner in which it may be performed, viz. by the medium being " rarer at " the dense bodies of the sun, stars, planets, and " comets, than in the celestial spaces between them ;" so that, " if the elastic force of this medium be ex" ceeding great,... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...¿miam m т тш^ул^.^^ , ant «er t mr¿a <*ywt»«y«e, 's/rfMv * Mttk. LA,. L &Js¿ el ¿warn. not grow denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause the gravity of those great bodies to one another, every body endeavouring to go from the denser parts of the medium to the rarer ?" l... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 844 pages
..." Is not this medium (the ether) much rarer within the dense bodies of the sun, stars, and planets, than in the empty celestial spaces between them? And, in passing from them to great distances, does it not grow denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause the gravity of »hose... | |
 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1831 - 328 pages
...rare and more elastic than air. It pervades all bodies, and is expanded through all the heavens. It is much rarer within the dense bodies of the sun, stars, planets, and comets, than in the celestial spaces between them, and also more rare within glass, water, &c. than in the free and open... | |
 | 1837 - 868 pages
...when for lack of demonstration, uncertainty arose in his mind, he thus queried : "Is not this medium much rarer within the dense bodies of the sun, stars,...spaces between them ? And in passing from them to great distances, doth it not grow denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause the gravity of those... | |
 | Jonathan Pereira - Light - 1843 - 200 pages
...himself has thrown out a speculation of this kind. Alluding to the ether, he says, " Is not this medium much, rarer within the dense bodies of the sun, stars,...spaces between them ? And in passing from them to great distances, doth it not grow denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause the gravity of those... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1843 - 812 pages
...himself has thrown out a speculation of this kind. Alluding to the ether, he says, " Is not this medium much rarer within the dense bodies of the sun, stars,...spaces between them ? And in passing from them to great distances, doth it not grow denser and denser perpetually, and thereby cause the gravity of those... | |
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