Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 16 Mur-Org
Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge 16 Mur-Org
Knight, Charles, 1791-1873, Ed
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In 1667 be beoame Junior fellow, took the dsgres of M.A., and beoame senior fellow in 1668. lie see- oeeded Dr. Barrow as Lucaaian professor of matbenwtics im 1669. The raging of the plague, in 1665-6, induced Newton fai auit Cambridge and retire to WooUtborpe. Hem' it was that be began to reflect more narticularly upon the i of the force by which bodies at the earth's surfar^ are drawn towards its centre, and to coi^eoture that the might possibly extend to the moon, and there be at suAcie«l in...tensity to counteract tbe centrifugal force of th&t sntanik, and thereby retain it in ila orbit about tlie earth. To coas- pare this hypothesis with observation, it waa neceasarj t» determine the law according to which the intensUy of each a force would vary with the distanoe from the aarth'a eeocre; for although no sensible variation can be detected wufa.a the narrow hmita of direct observation, namely, tbe amuu of tbe highest mountains or the bottom of the 4aspcat mines, it wss reasonable to nresume that some rwtmtma would be appreciable at the aistance of the moon, md m such case only could the force be just sufflcient to eovaler- aet tbe oentrifu^l tendency of the revolving — ♦rfl'^ Ta a mind so habituated to generalise, it was a Batonl ex- tension of bis hypothesis to suppose that tbe same kiai ti fbree which incessantly deflects the moon fhmi a reetf path might likewise aot upon the plar»ets so as to i them in their orbits about tbe sun.
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