The laws of gravitation; memoirs by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish, together with abstracts of other important memoirs

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Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Wisconsin - Madison and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Bibliography: p. 145-156 Preface.--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.--Bibliography.--Index
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