 | Bernard Nieuwentijdt - Natural theology - 1721 - 430 pages
...hit is attlwed on of all Hands, whilft at the fame tirhe fame make the Earth, others the Sun, te be at Reft in the Centre of the World. We likewife find...Propofition of the faid third Book, towards the End, we fee thefe Words, This Calculation (which is of fome Moment; » founded on the Hyf 'othejii of the Immobiliiy... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - Philosophy, Ancient - 1812 - 622 pages
...rest in the centre of the world. We likewise find, in the fourth Phenomenon, this expression : Of tbe five principal planets, and of the sun about the earth, or of the earth about the sun, the times of the revolution, &c. And in the fourth Proposition of the said 3rd book, towards the end, we... | |
 | John Narrien - Geodesy - 1845 - 484 pages
...simplicity to a circle, astronomers for convenience consider it as the figure of the orbit described by the sun about the earth, or of the earth about the sun. The point A or P at which the sun or the earth is when the two bodies are at the greatest or the least... | |
 | David C. Lindberg - Science - 1978 - 566 pages
...Principia (London, 1687), bk. 3, hyp. 7: "The periodic times of the five primary planets and (either of the sun about the earth or) of the earth about the sun are in sesquialterate ratio of the mean distances from the sun." Here, of course, Newton was not only... | |
 | Imre Lakatos - Philosophy - 1980 - 262 pages
...IV: 'That the fixed stars being at rest, the periodic times of the five primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the earth about the sun, are as the 3/2th power of their mean distances from the sun' (p. 404, my emphasis); Phenomenon V: 'Then... | |
 | Allan Franklin - Philosophy - 1989 - 308 pages
...periodic times of the five primary planets (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn), and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the earth about the sun, are as the 312th power of their mean distances from the sun. [Phenomenon IV, Book III, p. 404] Similar... | |
 | Roberto Torretti - Science - 1990 - 386 pages
...IV. That the fixed stars being at rest, the periodic times of the five primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the earth about the sun, are as the 3/2th power of their mean distances from the sun. PHENOMENON V. That the primary planets,... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Education - 2000 - 474 pages
...were: That the fixed stars being at rest, the periodic times of the five primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the earth about the sun, are as the 3/2th power of their mean distances from the sun. That the moon, by a radius drawn to the... | |
 | Jong-Ping Hsu, Dana Fine - Science - 2005 - 664 pages
...IV. That the fixed stars being' at rest, the periodic times of the five primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the earth about the sun, are in the sesquiplicate proportion of their mean distances from the sun. This proportion, first observed... | |
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Phenomenon IV. That the fixed stars being at rest, the periodic times of the five primary planets, and (whether of the sun about the earth, or) of the earth about the sun, are as the 3/2th power of their mean distances from the sun. 