Literary notes about ponderate (AI summary)
In literature, the term "ponderate" is used to evoke the idea of weight and the influence of mass in physical interactions. In one instance, it emphasizes how a body's greater mass causes it to have a proportionally larger gravitational effect compared to a lighter counterpart [1]. In another context, the word is applied to describe how the movement of a fluid can impart weight to objects, subsequently influencing phenomena such as the dip and direction of a compass needle [2].
- This, his greater mass, makes bodies, at equal distances from the centres, ponderate proportionally more to him than they would do to the earth.
— from The Plurality of Worlds by William Whewell - The flow makes bodies ponderate or have weight, causes the dip and direction of the compass-needle.
— from The Philosophy Which Shows the Physiology of Mesmerism and Explains the Phenomenon of Clairvoyance by T. H. Pasley
