 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 700 pages
...General or universal gravity, n tliat by which all the planets tend towards one another ; and indeed, by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend towards one another. The existence of the same principles of gravitation in the superior regions of the lieavens... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...General or universal gravity, is that by which all the planets tend towards one another; and indeed, by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend towin ds one another. The existence of the same principles of (¡invitation in the superior regions... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1880 - 296 pages
..."proportioned, corresponding; in proportion to. ''prodigious, huge ; enormous; monstrous. " Gravitation, the attraction or force by which all bodies or particles...of matter in the universe tend towards each other. 'antipodes, means with the feet opposite; people who live on opposite sides of the globe, and whose... | |
 | Aaron Walker - Religion and science - 1880 - 506 pages
...Chemical and other physical forces tiever produce vital manifestations. " Gravity is that species of force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other." The reason why bodies are drawn towards each other in this manner is because God... | |
 | Ki Chiu Kwong - Chronology, Chinese - 1881 - 988 pages
...there; but in the worst event, I shall have only two miles to walk before reaching home. Attraction of gravitation = That species of attraction or force,...matter, in the universe, tend towards each other. It is by the attraction of gravitation that an apple falls from the tree to the ground = An apple falls... | |
 | Joseph Krauskopf - Evolution and Judaism - 1887 - 580 pages
...GERMINAL CELL. A minute vesicle in the eggs of animals, from which the development of the embryo proceeds. GRAVITATION. That species of attraction or force by...bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other. GRAVITY. The tendency of a mass of matter toward a centre of attraction. H. HUMERUS.... | |
 | New Thought - 1903 - 748 pages
...in matter, acting in all matter under all conditions, is called the attraction of gravitation, "the force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the Universe tend toward each other." This force balances the worlds in their orbits, and were it not for the process... | |
 | William Rogers - 1905 - 432 pages
...of materials of sufficient strength to utilize it. UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION. Gravity or Gravitation is that species of attraction, or force by which, all...of matter in the universe tend towards each other ; it is also called attraction of gravitation and universal gravity ; gravity, in a more limited sense... | |
 | Rustam Nanabhai Rustamji Ranina - Gujarati language - 1910 - 668 pages
...any directioii or toward an object: 3U<4i44<;ii(l Ч1з'; •«i'auj'. Gravitation, (4Í4d «И )/i. That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other: Ji^4l44<ïi; ^I'4l4i. Gravity, (ИГчГг ) n. [L. gravis, heavy.] Heaviness; ¿¿¡кЧ;... | |
 | Noah Webster - 1910 - 538 pages
...gravitation, tend toward the center. — Gravita'tlon, n. Act of gravitating. (Phjaio.) That attraction by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other. Gravel, grav'el, n. A mass of small stones or fragments of stone mixed with sand,... | |
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That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend towards each other... 
