Cambridge School and College Textbooks: The First Three Sections of Newton's Principia, With an Appendix; And the Ninth and Eleventh Sections (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Cambridge School and College Textbooks: The First Three Sections of Newton's Principia, With an Appendix; And the Ninth and Eleventh SectionsThis quantity of matter is, in what follows, sometimes called the body, or mass. It is known for each body by means of its weight; for it has been found, by very accu rate experiments with pendulums, to be proportional to the weight.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.