Chapter

 1 Pre  |     SERVING AS A PREFACE TO THE SECOND~During the year 186-, the
 2 Pre  |    twelve thousand yards to the second. Launched on the 1st of
 3 Pre  |     should weigh 19,250 pounds. Second, that the gun should be
 4 Pre  |    projectile of the Columbiad. Second, errors of theory on the
 5 I    |       set within the tenth of a second by that of Murchison the
 6 II   | traverse Paris or New York in a second? This was evidently the
 7 II   |       having only one; but this second moon is so small, and its
 8 II   | determine the existence of this second satellite and calculate
 9 II   |         down the shutter of the second side. He succeeded; and
10 V    |     thousand yards in the first second was necessary to enable
11 V    |        minutes only, we met the second satellite, which gravitates
12 V    |           we should have made a second Noah’s ark of this projectile,
13 V    |     must act quickly.”~“And the second reason?” asked Michel.~“
14 V    |     reason?” asked Michel.~“The second reason is that we must not
15 IX   |          or about 170 leagues a second. Under the centripetal force,
16 XII  |        could even distinguish a second ringed enclosure. Around
17 XIV  |         been opened more than a second, but that second had sufficed
18 XIV  |         than a second, but that second had sufficed to let in a
19 XV   |      parabola is a curve of the second order, the result of the
20 XV   |       Michel, is a curve of the second order, produced by the intersection
21 XV   |         one mile and a half per second. It cut the projectile’s
22 XVII |    eastern part of the orb; the second occupied the eastern border,
23 XVIII|     Nicholl, “let us attack the second question, an indispensable
24 XVIII|         the discussion, put the second question, which had just
25 XIX  |        16,000 yards in the last second.~But to give some figures
26 XXI  |    Secretary at Washington; the second to the vice-president of
27 XXII |   Blomsberry.~“Without losing a second.”~Every precaution was taken