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Bk. I. of the Apparent Motion of the Heavenly Bodies Volume 1

Bk. I. of the Apparent Motion of the Heavenly Bodies Volume 1


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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. XIV. Of the figure of the earth, of the variation of gravity at its surface, and of the decimal system of weights and measures, Let us now descend from the heavens to the earth, and see what can be derived from observations relative to its dimensions and figure. It has been already observed that the earth is very nearly spherical: gravity being every where directed to the centre, retains bodies on its surface, although in places diametrically opposite, which are antipodes one to the other, they have directly contrary positions. The sky and the stars appear always above the earth; for elevation and depression are only relative terms with respect to the direction of gravity. From the moment that man recognized the spherical form of the globe which he inhabits, he must have been anxious to measure its dimensions; it is therefore extremely probable that the first attempts to attain this object were made at a period long anterior to those of which history has preserved the record, and that they have been lost in the moral and physical changes which the earth has undergone. The relation which several measures of the most remote antiquity have toeach other, and to the terrestrial circumference, gives countenance to this conjecture, and seems to indicate not only that this length was very exactly known at a very ancient period, but that it has also served as the base of a complete system of measures, the vestiges of which have been found in Asia and in Egypt. Be this as it may, the first precise measure of the earth, of which we have any certain knowledge, is that which Picard executed in France towards the end of the seventeenth century, and which has been repeatedly verified. It is easy to conceive this operation. As we advance towards the north, the pole seems to be el...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217611053
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 122
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217611052
  • Publisher Date: 05 May 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 231 gr


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