Mechanics' magazine and register of inventions and improvements . t to its orbit, the samedistance as the earth falls, it may be shown bygeometiy that it must move twice as far in itsorbit to be the same distance from the tangentas the earth is, in the same time, which movesin a circle four times less. In like manner it may be shown that if aplanet is nine times as far from the sun as theearth is, it will have to move three times as farin its orbit, to be removed the same distancefrom the tangent, at the end of a second, asthe earth is. Now, according to the law whichactually exists in nature,
Mechanics' magazine and register of inventions and improvements . t to its orbit, the samedistance as the earth falls, it may be shown bygeometiy that it must move twice as far in itsorbit to be the same distance from the tangentas the earth is, in the same time, which movesin a circle four times less. In like manner it may be shown that if aplanet is nine times as far from the sun as theearth is, it will have to move three times as farin its orbit, to be removed the same distancefrom the tangent, at the end of a second, asthe earth is. Now, according to the law whichactually exists in nature, the earth moves threetimes as fast as a planet which is nine timesas far from the sun as itself: whereas, accord-ing to the h3pothetical law we are examining,the planet would move three times as fast asthe earth. If this article should be successful in freeingan active and ingenious mind from the tram-mels of a false hypothesis, on a subject of highimportance, it will not have been written in vain. Masons Improvements in Locking the Fore Wheels of Carriagts XJ. ?d^\
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