 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...natural : for if the earth, in its motion, suffers some little resistance, which cannot be doubted, the effect of this resistance will gradually bring...earth ought to come within the region of Venus, and at last into that of Mercury, where it would necessarily be burnt. Hence it is manifest that the system... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1909 - 640 pages
...formerly ; the reason of which is very natural, for if the earth, in its motion, suffers some little resistance (which cannot be doubted, since the space...planets nearer and nearer the sun ; and as their orbits thereby become less, their periodical times will also be diminished. Thus in time the earth ought to... | |
 | Leonhard Euler, Eric J. Aiton - Mathematics - 1996 - 488 pages
...formerly: The Reason of which is very natural; for if the Earth, in its Motion, suffers some little Resistance (which cannot be doubted, since the Space...Planets nearer and nearer the Sun; and as their Orbits thereby become less, their periodical Times will also be diminish'd. Thus in Time the Earth ought to... | |
 | Robert E. Bradley, Ed Sandifer - Mathematics - 2007 - 542 pages
...time; so that the years are shorter at present than formerly: the reason of which is very natural. . . [T]he effect of this resistance will gradually bring...planets nearer and nearer the sun; and as their orbits thereby become less, their periodical times will also be diminished. . . This then is a proof, purely... | |
 | 642 pages
...formerly ; the reason of which is very natural, for if the earth, in its motion, suffers some little resistance (which cannot be doubted, since the space...planets nearer and nearer the sun ; and as their orbits thereby become less, their periodical times will also be diminished. Thus in time the earth ought to... | |
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... become less, their periodical times will also be diminished. Thus in time the earth ought to come within the region of Venus, and in fine into that of Mercury, where it would necessarily be burnt. Hence it is manifest that the system of the planets... 