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" ... side, seems, to many, palpably absurd. Yet nothing is more true, nor indeed more evident, when we consider that it is not by her whole attraction, but by the differences of her attractions at the opposite surfaces and at the centre, that the waters... "
Elements of Natural Philosophy: Embracing the General Principles of ... - Page 236
by Leonard Dunnell Gale - 1838 - 276 pages
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Astronomy

sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...waters of the ocean under her, seems to most persons very natural, — that the same cause should, at the same time, heap them up on the opposite side,...attraction, but by the differences of her attractions at the two surfaces and at the center that the waters are raised, — that is to say, by forces directed precisely...
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Astronomy

Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...waters of the ocean under her, seems to most persons very natural, — that the same cause should, at the same time, heap them up on the opposite side,...attraction, but by the differences of her attractions at the two surfaces and at the center that the waters are raised, — that is to say, by forces directed precisely...
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The Geography of the Heavens, and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a ...

Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1838 - 350 pages
...persons very natural ; but that the same cause should, at the same time, heap them up on the opposile side, seems, to many, palpably absurd. Yet nothing...centre, that the waters are raised. That the tides are dependent upon some known and determinate laws, is evident from the exact time of high water being...
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Lessons on the globes

T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 pages
...the waters of the ocean under her, seems, to most persons, very natural : that the same cause should, at the same time, heap them up on the opposite side,...that it is not by her whole attraction, but by the difference of her attractions at the two surfaces and at the centre, that the waters are raised." —...
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The Geography of the Heavens: And Class-book of Astronomy; Accompanied by a ...

Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1842 - 344 pages
...waters of the ocean untler her, seems to most persons very natural ; but that the same cause should, at the same time, heap them up on the opposite side,...evident, when we consider that it is not by her whole auraction, but by the differences of her auractions at the opposite surfaces and at the centre, that...
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The Geography of the Heavens and Class Book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a ...

Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1843 - 344 pages
...the opposite side of the Earth, are not so much attracted as they are on the side nearest the Moon. indeed more evident, when we consider that it is not...centre, that the waters are raised. That the tides are dependent upon some known and determinate laws, \a evident from the exact time of high water being...
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An Elementary Astronomy for Academies and Schools: Illustrated by Numerous ...

Hiram Mattison - Astronomy - 1849 - 304 pages
...cause should, at the same time, heap them up on the opposite side of the earth, [as at C, Fig. 3,] seems to many palpably absurd. Yet nothing is more...attraction, but by the differences of her attractions at the two surfaces and at the centre, that the waters are raised."* The law of gravitation (17) is the same...
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Outlines of Astronomy

John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1849 - 672 pages
...its attraction heap up the waters of the ocean under it, seems to them very natural. That it should at the same time heap them up on the opposite side seems, on the contrary, palpably absurd. The error of this class of objectors is of the same kind with that...
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The Geography of the Heavens, and Class-book of Astronomy: Accompanied by a ...

Elijah Hinsdale Burritt - Astronomy - 1850 - 344 pages
...time, heap them op on the opposite side, seems, to many, palpably absord. Yet nothing is more troe. Dor indeed more evident, when we consider that it is not by her whole attraction, bot by the diflerences of her attractions at the opposite sorfaces and at the center, that the waters...
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Alastor, or, The new Ptolemy [a dialogue between Alastor and Dion].

James Orton - Mathematics - 1852 - 188 pages
...the waters of the ocean under her, seems to most persons very natural ; that the same cause should at the same time heap them up on the opposite side,...to many palpably absurd. Yet nothing is more true, or indeed more evident, when we consider that it is not by her whole attraction, but by the differences...
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