id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 28613 Lodge, Oliver, Sir Pioneers of Science .txt text/plain 112983 5904 72 all-important body in the universe, if the sun and planets and stars planets and stars revolve round our insignificant earth was too great to The length of the earth's year is 365ยท256 days; its mean distance from uniform motion in each circle round the earth as a fixed body. planet's year depends on the 3/2th power of its distance from the sun. By this time Newton was only forty-five years old, but his main work was moon, which is 60 times as far from the centre of the earth, drops 16 the earth revolved round the sun, how came it that the fixed stars light must be 10,000 times as great as the velocity of the earth in its Newton of the observed facts of the motion of the moon, the way he Now consider the earth and moon revolving round each other like a man ./cache/28613.txt ./txt/28613.txt