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β its mean apparent diameter, 453 |
β its true diameter, 398 |
β its horizontal parallax, 398 |
β has a menstrual parallax, 403 |
β its attractive force how great, 398 |
β the weight of bodies on its surface, 399 |
β its density, 399 |
β its quantity of matter, 399 |
β its force to disturb the motions of the moon, 391, 419 |
β its force to move the sea, 448 |
Tides of the sea derived from their cause, 415, 448, 449 |
Time, absolute and relative, 78, 79 |
β the astronomical equation thereof proved by pendulum clocks, and the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites, 79 |
A Vacuum proved, or that all spaces (if said to be full) are not equally full, 396 |
Velocities of bodies moving in conic sections, where the centripetal force tends to the focus, 121 |
Velocity, the greatest that a globe falling in a resisting medium can acquire, 344 |
Venus, its periodic time, 388 |
β its distance from the sun, 388 |
β the motion of its aphelion, 405 |
Vortices, their nature and constitution examined, 504 |
Waves, the velocity with which they are propagated on the superficies of stagnant water, 361 |
Weights of bodies towards the sun, the earth, or any planet, are, at equal distances from the centre, as the quantities of matter in the bodies, 394 |
β they do not depend upon the forms and textures of bodies, 395 |
β of bodies in different regions of the earth found out, and compared together, 409 |
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