43S The Phcenomena of Gravitation proved to he proximate 



merits of bodies falling in times between four seconds and the 

 tciith of a second : 



Seconds. Feet. B;ise. 



4 256 400,000 



3 144 300,000 



2 64 200,000 



1 16 100,000 



•5 4 50,000 



•25 1 25,000 



•1 T-V 10,000 



9. As every successive circle, from the centre to the utmost 

 bounds of the atmosphere, in performing the diurnal rotation, 

 contains bodies of such density, that the density multiplied by 

 the motion is equal ; so no body of undue density would remain 

 in a circle of rotation which created in it too great or too small 

 a relative momentum, provided, as in fluids, the parts were free 

 to move one among another ; and, if they were not free to move, 

 as in fixed organizations, then they would exhibit the phEeno- 

 mena of pressure, or would appear, in regard to other bodies, to 

 solicit to ascend or descend, as the case might be. Probably 

 to this conflict of light and heavy bodies;, to the generation of 

 light bodies in undue positions, and to the varied action of fixed 

 and fluid matter, may be referred most of the phasnomena of 

 terrestrial organizations ; and, as the whole grows out of the 

 two-fold motion of the earth, so we thus refer the origin of all 

 things and phaeuomeua to the agency of motion. 



It follows, therefore, that, the velocity of all the parts and de- 

 pendencies of the earth being alike, the momentum of every part 

 is directly as its quantity of matter ; consequently, momentum 

 IS weight; and the velocity of 100,000 feet per second in the 

 direction of the tangents of the orbit being so much greater than 

 the ordinary, or even extraordinary forces applied to move bodies 

 in any novel direction, the phaenomenon called by the name of 

 Gravitation is a necessary result of a preponderating, coincident 

 motion in. another direction, all contrary or foreign motions be- 

 ing ultimately destroyed by the resisting medium of the atmo- 

 sphere and the deflective circular motion. 



The weight of bodies, then, actson the same principle as their 

 momentum in the orbit of the earth, because every force which 

 exhibits the phsenomena of weight affects the paramount orbi- 

 cular force ; and, this active principle is, therefore, merely a 

 pht^pnomenun resulting from the orbicular momenluvi, rcQulated 

 by the rotary motion; which rotary motion causes all bodies to 

 perform circuits inversely as their quantities of matter, and which 

 circuits are proportioned to the distance from the centre. 



The phaenomena of weight and gravitation, and of falling 



bodies. 



