Laws of Gravitation Memoirs by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish

GENERAL CONTENTSPreface 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'sThe Figure of the Earth Biographical sketch of Bouguer The Bertier controversy Account of Maskelyne's experiments on Schehallien Cavendish's "Experiments to determine the mean density of the Earth" Biographical sketch of Cavendish Historical account of the experiments made since the time of Cavendish Table of results of experiments Bibliography IndexBouguer, Pierre is the author of 'Laws of Gravitation Memoirs by Newton, Bouguer and Cavendish' with ISBN 9781410202543 and ISBN 1410202542.