The young gentleman and lady's astronomy / [James Ferguson].

  • James Ferguson
Date:
1808
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Credit: The young gentleman and lady's astronomy / [James Ferguson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    head to forne other part of the earth; for the earth is round like a globe, and on whatever part of its fur face a perfon (lands upright, he thinks himfelf to be on the uppermofHide; and wonders how any one can (land dire6tly oppolite to him, on the undermod fide of the earth; or rather, hov/ he can hang to it, with his head downward, and not fall off to the lower Iky. E, That is v/hat I ha^^e often v/ondered at, when I have beard it affirmed that the earth is habitable on all (ides: or thatwffiere towns cannot be built, fhips may fail. How comes it to pafs, that the weight of a fliip caufeth it not to fall off from the lower feas; or that thefe (hips and feas do not fall off to the lower fky altogether? N. What we call weight is caufed by ai- tra6lion,—The earth attra6ls all bodies on or near its furface towards its center, equally on all (ides, every particle of mat- ter alike; and therefore thofe bodies which contain the greatefl number of particles of matter acquire from this attraffion the greatcll and moil forcible pre(fure; and confcquently have (what-we call) the greatefl
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