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