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  • It is only lately that we have been able to see clearly that the effects known to us as Light, Heat, Electricity, and Magnetism are caused by pulsations or rills of different rapidity in the Ether (this will be referred to in a later View); it is also probably the cause of what we call Gravitation, and we shall see that the action of

    Science and the Infinite or Through a Window in the Blank Wall Sydney T. Klein 1893

  • Although the album was released on the Swedish label Gravitation without the help of widespread distribution, the story of The Tallest Man on Earth spread far and wide through word of mouth.

    The Line Of Best Fit 2010

  • Although the album was released on the Swedish label Gravitation without the help of widespread distribution, the story of The Tallest Man on Earth spread far and wide through word of mouth.

    The Line Of Best Fit 2010

  • Principles which lie at the foundation of other domains of our intellectual accumulations, Comte remarks: 'The ultimate perfection of the Positive system would be (if such perfection could be hoped for) to represent all phenomena as particular aspects of a single general fact; -- such as Gravitation, for instance.'

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 6, December 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • For uncounted centuries before ever hearing of "Gravitation" men knew of the sun that he rose and set at hours which, though mysteriously appointed, could be accurately predicted; of the moon that she regularly waxed and waned, drawing the waters of the earth in a flow and ebb, the gauge of which and the time-table could be advertised beforehand in the almanack; of the stars, that they swung as by clockwork around the pole.

    Poetry Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • My 'Gravitation' was either finished or so nearly finished that on Jan. 24th I had some conversation with Knight the publisher about printing it.

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • β€œOn Oct. 20th Sheepshanks wrote asking my assistance in the Penny Cyclopaedia: I did afterwards write 'Gravitation' and 'Greenwich.' ”

    Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896

  • 'Gravitation' dragging rain-drops down to the earth: or the fairy of 'Crystallization' building up the snow-flakes in the clouds?

    The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

  • The only article which can be called a treatise is the Astronomer Royal's "Gravitation," founded on the method of

    A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838

  • Mythusmage, Do you have a copy of Misner, Thorne and Wheeler's book "Gravitation"?

    Planet Atheism 2009

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