...confeyuentia, may be neglected : and this more fully appears from the next proportion. РЛОР IV. The moon gravitates towards the earth, and by the force of gravity is continually drawn oft from a reftilmear motion, and retained in its orVit. — The mean dillance of the moon from the...

...appears from the next proposition. PROP. IV. The moon gravitates towards the earth, and by the foice of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion, and retained in its orbit. — The mean distance of the moon from the e;r th in the syzigies in semidiameters of the latter, is about 60}....

...moon, in respect of the earth's centre. — PROP. 4. The moon gravitates towards the earth ; and by Ihe force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion, and retained in her orbit. — PROP. 5. 'The same thing is true of all the other planets, both primary and secondary,...

...in confequentia, may be neglected: and this more fully appears from the next propofition. PROP. IV. The moon gravitates towards the earth, and by the...The mean diftance of the moon from the earth in the fyzigies in femidiameters of . the latter, is about 6o|. Let us affiime the mean diltance of 60 femidiameters...

...3. — The same thing is also true of the moon, in respect of the earth's centre. Proposition 4. — The moon gravitates towards the earth; and by the...continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion, and retamed in her orbit. Proposition 5. — The same thing is true of all the other planets, both primary...

...Proposition 3.— The same thingis also true of the moon, in respect of the earth's centre. Proposition 4.— The moon gravitates towards the earth ; and by the force of gravity is continually drawn ott trom a rectilinear motion, and retained in her orbit. Proposition 5.— The same thing true of...

...3. — The same thing is also true of the moon, in respect of the earth's centre. Proposition 4. — The moon gravitates towards the earth ; and by the...drawn off from a rectilinear motion, and retained in her orbit. Proposition 5. — The same thing is tnie nf all the other planets, both primary and secondary,...

...truth enunciated in the third and fourth propositions of the third book of the Principia; viz. first that the moon gravitates towards the earth, and by...from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit, and secondly, that this force is reciprocally as the square of the distance of its place from the earth's...

...gravitation was confirmed. As the great discoverer himself summed it up in Proposition IV of his Principles: The moon gravitates towards the earth. And by the...from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit. Why did men at once accept Newton's Principles, and before the end of his life almost worship him?...

...force by which the moon is retained in its orbit" as tending "to the earth." Page 407 (III, iv) says that the "moon gravitates towards the earth, and by...continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion." Finally, page 414 (III, vii) speaks of "a power of gravity pertaining to all bodies." This is pretty...