 | Alfred Seabold Eli Ackermann - Common fallacies - 1923 - 1010 pages
...mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought : Why not as high as the moon ? said...influenced by it ; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby.' "— W. Whewell, DD, Vol. II., p. 121, History of the Inductive Sciences, 3rd ed., 1857.... | |
 | Thora Guinevere Stone - Great Britain - 1923 - 286 pages
...this power might extend much farther than was usually thought, why not as high as the moon ? . . . and if so her motion must be influenced by it, perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby. . . . Some years after he resumed his former thoughts concerning the moon. Picart in France... | |
 | Voltaire - English literature - 1924 - 342 pages
...farther than was usually thought : tr/jy not as high as thé moon said he to himself; and if so, lier motion must be influenced by it ; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby... (Ici Voltaire coupe et change la chaîne des idées) ...He considered with himself that... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...center of the earth, to which we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor even on the summits of the highest mountains; it appeared...influenced by it; perhaps she is retained in her orbit thereby. The account is Henry Pemberton's, who was much with Newton in old age, and wrote one of the... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...limited to a certain distance from the earth but that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought. Why not as high as the moon said he to himself & if so that must influence her motion & perhaps retain her in her orbit, whereupon he fell a calculating... | |
 | Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - History - 1988 - 406 pages
...rise ... , it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much further than was usually thought; why not as high as the moon? said he to himself." And further: "[He] considered with himself that, if the moon be retained in her orbit by the force of gravity,... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pages
...remotest distance from the center of the earth . . . that this power must extend much further than was usually thought; why not as high as the moon, said he to himself?' And according to Newton himself:56 'And in the same year [1665 or 1666] I began to think of gravity extending... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 356 pages
...limited to a certain distance from the earth but that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought. Why not as high as the moon said he to himself & if so that must influence her motion & perhaps retain her in her orbit, whereupon he fell a calculating... | |
 | Murray Gell-Mann - Biography & Autobiography - 1995 - 414 pages
...limited to a certain distance from the earth but that this power must extend much farther than was usually thought. Why not as high as the moon said he to himself & if so that must influence her motion & perhaps retain her in orbit, whereupon he fell a calculating... | |
 | Alfred Rupert Hall, Isaac Newton - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 236 pages
...mountain, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude, that this power must extend much further than was usually thought. Why not as high as the moon? said...himself; and if so, her motion must be influenced by it; pethaps she is retained in her orbit thereby: ... yet it is very possible, that, as high as the moon,... | |
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... from the centre of the earth to which» •we can rise, neither at the tops of the loftiest buildings, nor even on the summits of the highest mountains, it appeared to him reasonable to conclude that this power must extend much farther than was usually... 
