A View of Sir Isaac Newton's PhilosophyPemberton, Henry
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A View of Sir Isaac Newton's Philosophy
Pemberton, Henry
Newton, Isaac, 1642-1727. Principia
~CHAP. 4.~ _Of the resistance of fluids_ p. 143
_Bodies are resisted in the duplicate proportion of
their velocities_ p. 147
_Of elastic fluids and their resistance_ p. 149
_How fluids may be rendered elastic_ p. 150
_The degree of resistance in regard to the proportion
between the density of the body and of the fluid_
_In rare and uncompressed fluids_ p. 153
_In compressed fluids_ p. 155
_The degree of resistance as it depends upon the figure
of bodies_
_In rare and uncompressed fluids_ p. 155
_In compressed fluids_ p. 158
BOOK II.
~CHAP. 1.~ _That the planets move in a space
empty of sensible matter_ p. 161
_The system of the world described_ p. 162
_The planets suffer no sensible resistance in their
motion_ p. 166
_They are not kept in motion by a fluid_ p. 168
_That all space is not full of matter without vacancies_ p. 169
~CHAP. 2.~ _Concerning the cause that keeps in
motion the primary planets_ p. 171
_They are influenced by a centripetal power directed to
the sun_ p. 171
_The strength of this power is reciprocally in the
duplicate proportion of the distance_ ibid.
_The cause of the irregularities in the motions of the
planets_ p. 175
_A correction of their motions_ p. 178
_That the frame of the world is not eternal_ p. 180
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