 | Isaac Newton - 1729 - 546 pages
...becaufe the furface (in proportion to which it is cool'd by the contad of the ambient air) is in that proportion lefs in refpeft of the quantity of the included hot matter. And therefore a globe of red-hoc iron, equal to our Earth, that is, about 40000000 feet in diameter, would fcarcely cool in... | |
 | Robert Boyle - 1738 - 792 pages
...air ; and a larger fphere would, " longer preferve its heat, in proportion to its diameter : " whence a globe of red-hot iron, equal to our earth, that " is about 40,000,000 feet in diameter, would require yo,ooo '' years to cool in. * *' * Newton. Princip. p. 466, 467. By By fuch a remarkvble injiance,... | |
 | 1756 - 602 pages
...furface (in proportion to which it is cooled by tLe ambient air) is in that proportion lefs in refpefl of the quantity' of the included hot matter: '. And...earth, that is about 40,000,000 feet in diameter, would fcarcely cool in 50,000 years. Again. ' As to the tranfverfe diameters of the orbits of comets, and... | |
 | 1757 - 740 pages
...furiace (in proportion to which it ib cooled by the ambient air) is in chat proportion lefs in reípeíl of the quantity of the included hot matter : and therefore...globe of redhot iron equal to our earth, that is, aboot 4O.OCO.OOO feet in diameter, would fcaicely cool in 50,000 years." Again, " As to the tranfverfe... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1803 - 410 pages
...proportion to which it is cooled by the contact of the ambient air) is in that proportion lefs in refpe& of the quantity of the included hot matter ; and therefore a globe of red hot iron equal to our earth, that is, about 40000000 feet in diameter, would fcarcely cool in an... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1877 - 812 pages
...proportion to which it is cooled by the contact of the ambient air) is in that proportion less in respect of the quantity of the included hot matter ; and therefore a globe of red hot iron equal to our earth, that is about 40,000,000 feet in diameter, would scarcely cool in... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 808 pages
...less in respect of the quantity of the included hot matter.) " And, therefore," Newton proceeds, " a globe of red-hot iron equal to our earth — that is, about 40,000,000 feet in diameter — would scarcely cool in an equal number of days, or in above 50,000 years. But I suspect that the duration... | |
 | George Smith, William Makepeace Thackeray - 1878 - 814 pages
...— 1m in mp-et of the quantity of the included hot matter.) "And, therefore," Newton proceeds, "i globe of red-hot iron equal to our earth — that is, about 40,000,000 feet in diameter— would scarcely cool in an equal number of days, or in above 50,000 jears. But I •»• poet that the duration... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1878 - 832 pages
...in respect of the quantity of the included hot matter.) " And, therefore," Newton proceeds, " aglobe of redhot iron equal to our earth — that is, about 40,000,000 feet in diameter — would scarcely cool in an equal number of days, or in above 50,000 years. But I suspect that the duration... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1883 - 334 pages
...proportion to which it is cooled by the contact of the ambient air) is in that proportion less in respect of the quantity of the included hot matter; and therefore a globe of red hot iron equal to our earth, that is, about 40,000,000 feet in diameter, would scarcely cool in... | |
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... iron equal to our earth, that is, about 40,000,000 feet in diameter, would scarcely cool in an equal number of days, or in above 50,000 years. 
