The Literary Companion (Think Books)
Publisher: Robson Books, Limited
Published: August 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 152
ISBN-13: 9781861057983
Subjects: Literary & Linguistic Reference Works; Literary studies: general; Literature (General); Literature - Classics / Criticism; Literary Criticism; General; BOOKS; LITERATURE_MISCELLANEA; Literary Criticism & Collections / Books & Reading; Literary Criticism & Collections / General
First sentence: In Gulliver's Travels (1726) Jonathan Swift wrote of 'two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars; whereof the innermost is distant from the centre of the primary planet exactly three of his diameters, and the outermost, five; the former revolves in the space of ten hours, and the latter in twenty-one and a half; so that the squares of their periodical times are very near in the same proportion with the cubes of their distance from the centre of Mars; which evidently shows them to be governed by the same law of gravitation that influences the other heavenly bodies'.