, the same as Gravity, which see.
Heavy bodies do not tend precisely to the very centre of the earth, except at the poles, and the equator, on account of the spheroidal figure of the earth; their direction being every where perpendicular to the surface of the spheroid.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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