Center of the Earth - wonderful serendipity (I like that word)

[Olivier]

Hi everyone!


Quite unfortunately, I haven't had time to read through all the messages on
this intriguing subject, but I am saving them for later.

As I was browsing through the Cornell University collection of  scanned
nineteenth-century American magazines & newspapers
(http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/moa_browse.html) for my research, I
started going through the first issues of  the Scientific American- and gues
what I saw on the first page of  Vol 2 issue 1 (Oct 3, 1846)
(http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/pageviewer?root=%2Fmoa%2Fscia%2F
scia0002%2F&tif=00011.TIF&cite=http%3A%2F%2Fcdl.library.cornell.edu%2Fcgi-bi
n%2Fmoa%2Fmoa-cgi%3Fnotisid%3DABF2204-0002-2&coll=moa&frames=1&view=75) (can
be viewed as a gif  image or a pdf  document) ? ...



"

Philosophy of  Gravity

A body carried beneath the surface of  the earth becomes lighter, because
the matter then above it, is drawing it up, instead of  down, as before. A
descent of  a few hundred feet makes a sensible difference, and at the
centre of  the  earth, if  a man could reach it, he would find things have
no weight at all; and there would be neither up nor down, because bodies
would be equally attracted in all directions.

"




Have a nice week!


Olivier