 | John Clarke - 1730 - 382 pages
...of a Cannon on the Top of a Mountain with a given Velocity, and in an horizontal Direction, and goes in a curve Line to the Diftance of two Miles before it falls to the Ground : The fame Bullet with twice the Velocity would go twice as far, and, with ten times the Velocity would go ten... | |
 | Robert Spearman - Philosophy - 1755 - 466 pages
...gun-powder, with a given velocity, in an horizontal line, from the top of any mountain, would proceed in a curve line, to the diftance of two miles before it fell to the earth; then, with a double velocity, it would go twice as far; and with a tenfold velocity,... | |
 | Rev. John Allen - Astronomy - 1822 - 518 pages
...velocity, with which it is projected, by so much the less it will deviate from a rectilineal course, and the farther it will go. If a leaden ball, projected...by the force of gun-powder, with a given velocity, in a horizontal direction, be carried to the distance of two miles before it falls to the ground ;... | |
 | Bartholomew Prescot - Astronomy - 1822 - 292 pages
...adjust ratios on false principles." * Newton's account of this imaginary experiment is as follows: "If a leaden ball, projected from the top of a mountain by the force of gtmpowder with a given velocity. and in a direction parallel to the horizon, is carried in a curve... | |
 | Meteorology - 1830 - 886 pages
...That velocity will counteract gravity, sir Isaac Newton avers in his Principia, Definition five. " If a leaden ball, projected from the top of a mountain by the force of gunpowder with a given velocity, is carried in a curve line to the distance of two miles before it falls to the ground, the same, if... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pages
...greater the velocity with which it is projected, the less will it deviate from a rectilinear course, and the farther it will go. If a leaden ball, projected...direction parallel to the horizon, is carried in a curved line to the distance of two miles before it falls to the ground; the same, if the resistance... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - Science - 2001 - 778 pages
...greater the velocity with which it is projected, the less will it deviate from a rectilinear course, and the farther it will go. If a leaden ball, projected...direction parallel to the horizon, is carried in a curved line to the distance of two miles before it falls to the ground; the same, if the resistance... | |
 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Philosophy of nature - 2002 - 400 pages
...is revolved with greater velocity, and as soon as it is let go, flies away.' 250,1 Newton loc. cit., 'If a leaden ball, projected from the top of a mountain...direction parallel to the horizon, is carried in a curved line to the distance of two miles before it Ms to the ground; the same, if the resistance of... | |
 | 2005 - 264 pages
...less will it deviate from a rectilinear course, and the farther it will go. If a leaden (fpffrJlKl) ball, projected from the top of a mountain by the...direction parallel to the horizon, is carried in a curved line to the distance of two miles before it falls to the ground; the same if the resistance... | |
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... line to the distance of two miles before it falls to the ground; the same, if the resistance of the air were taken away, with a double or decuple velocity, would fly twice or ten times as far. 