A Treatise on Statics with Applications to Physics, Volume 2

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Clarendon Press, 1886 - Statics
 

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Page 234 - And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies, and of our sea.
Page 12 - Vol. II. The Sacred Laws of the Aryas, as taught in the Schools of Apastamba, Gautama, VasishMa, and Baudhayana. Translated by Prof. Georg Buhler. Part I. Apastamba and Gautama. lOf. 6d. Vol. III. The Sacred Books of China. The Texts of Confucianism.
Page 355 - K and E are the complete elliptic integrals of the first and second kinds with modulus k ; so that the quantity in PA brackets is a function of the ratio ^^: simply.
Page 234 - But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses: for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.

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