The laws of gravitation : memoirs

Author(s)

• Mackenzie, A. Stanley (Arthur Stanley)
• Newton, Isaac, Sir
• Bouguer, M. (Pierre)
• Cavendish, Henry

Bibliographic Information

The laws of gravitation : memoirs

by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish, together with abstracts of other important memoirs ; translated and edited by A. Stanley Mackenzie

（Scientific memoirs, 9）

American book company, c1900

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• The laws of gravitation; memoirs by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish, together with abstracts of other important memoirs. Tr. and ed. by A. Stanley Mackenzie.

  1900

  HathiTrust

  

Note

Bibliography: p. 145-156

Includes index

Contents of Works

• History of the subject before the appearance of Newton's Principia
• Extracts from Newton's Principia and System of the world
• Biographical sketch of Newton
• Bouguer's The figure of the earth
• Biographical sketch of Bouguer
• The Bertier controversy
• Account of Maskelyne's experiments on Schehallien
• Cavendish's experiments to determine the mean density of the earth
• Biographical sketch of Cavendish
• Historical account of the experiments made since the time of Cavendish
• Table of results of experiments

Details

• NCID: BA32944940
• LCCN: 00004471
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 160 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QB341
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Gravitation
  • LCSH : Earth -- Density
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA3294515X