The Laws of Gravitation; Memoirs By Newton, Bouguer And Cavendish, Together With Abstracts of Other Important Memoirs

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 t