There is merely the impression; but it is so definite as to prevent the author from adopting the new hypothesis, in virtue of which the planet, as it gravitates round the Sun, presents always the same hemisphere.
Many of these distant suns are simple and isolated; others are double, triple, or multiple; others appear to be the centers of systems analogous to that which gravitates round our own Sun, and of which we form part.
This giantgravitates in space accompanied by a suite of five satellites.
The blue sun, which is the smallest, turns around the green sun; and the latter gravitates with its companion around the great orange sun, which you will perceive in an instant.
The satellite is, therefore, nearer the body round which it gravitates at one moment than it is at another.
A spectator endowed with infinite power of sight, and placed at the unknown centre round which gravitates the universe, would have seen myriads of atoms filling all space during the chaotic epoch of creation.
I can now explain to myself why we met with the second satellite, that gravitates at more than 2,000 leagues from the earth, in less than thirteen minutes.
The system of domestic government ever gravitates towards its right form.
The Experiment of a brass Ketle swiming when empty, & sinking when full, alledged to prove that water gravitates in water, answered.
We touch that point where the creature gravitates to its final rest, the vision of the Glory of God.
He has so constituted natural process that wrong gravitates to wretchedness; and He is in that process, and above it, always and for ever.
While he is young, he gravitates round his parents, not only by obedience, which is right, but by the subordination of all his originality, all his being.
In this way society slowly gravitates toward life in herds, which must not be confounded with public life.
Character gravitates upward, as with a celestial gravitation, while mere genius, without character, gravitates downward.
That every one of the satellites of Saturn gravitates towards the other four, and the other four towards it; all five towards Saturn, and Saturn towards all.
Finally, as in all bodies re-action is equal to action, it is certain that the earth gravitates also towards the moon; and that the sun gravitates towards both.
Principia is as follows: "That the moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.
In this great work Newton propounds the principle that "every particle of matter in the universe is attracted by, or gravitates to, every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances.
The fact that air gravitates we have already taken for granted in explaining the ascent of a balloon; and the proofs now given are enough to show that the cause assumed is a real one.
The fact that itgravitates is proved in various ways.
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