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The absolute Gravities of Solids, have a proportion compounded of the proportions of their specificall Gravities, and of their Masses.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo

Solids whose Masses answer in proportion contrarily to their Specificall Gravities, are equall in Absolute Gravities.

From Discourse on Floating Bodies by Galilei, Galileo

And what are the differing Gravities of the Sea-water, according to the Climats.

From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry

Mr. Frank Kidson has pointed out that Sam Weller's song is founded upon a ballad entitled ‘Turpin and the Bishop,’ which appears in Gaieties and Gravities, by one of the authors of Rejected Addresses.

From Charles Dickens and Music by Lightwood, James T.

Chapter VI. opens with a discussion "On the Separation of the Constituent Minerals of Lava, according to their Specific Gravities."

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir