The laws of gravitation
Subtitle: memoirs by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish, together with abstracts of other important memoirs.
By: Tr. and ed. by A. Stanley Mackenzie.
Contributors: Newton, Isaac, Sir, 1642-1727.; Bouguer, M. 1698-1758.; Cavendish, Henry, 1731-1810.
Series: Scientific memoirs -- no. 9; Scientific memoirs -- 9.
Publisher: American book company
Published: 1900
Place of publication: New York; Cincinnati [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Gravitation; Earth -- Density
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: History of the subject before the appearance of Newton's Principia.; title: Extracts from Newton's Principia and System of the world.; title: Biographical sketch of Newton.; title: Bouguer's The figure of the earth.; title: Biographical sketch of Bouguer.; title: The Bertier controversy.; title: Account of Maskelyne's experiments on Schehallien.; title: Cavendish's experiments to determine the mean density of the earth.; title: Biographical sketch of Cavendish.; title: Historical account of the experiments made since the time of Cavendish.; title: Table of results of experiments.; title: Bibliography.; title: Index.