 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - Astronomy - 1809 - 406 pages
...the celestial bodies, and established as a principle, that all particles of matter attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. Arrived at this principle, Newton saw that the great phenomena of the system of the world might be... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 pages
...celestial bodies, and established as a principle, thai all particles of. matter attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. Arrived at this principle, Newton saw that the great phenomena of the system of the world might be... | |
 | John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 536 pages
...corpuscles, and the hugest aggregations of matter, — that all the particles of matter attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance, he at once beheld the cause of those perturbations of motion to which the heavenly bodies are necessarily... | |
 | Science - 1837 - 594 pages
...position of the planets made upon this hypothesis of their gravitating towards the sun with a force directly as their mass, a.nd inversely as the* square of their distance from the sun, are found to agree very well with the observed positions, if the calculations extend... | |
 | John Henry Pratt - Celestial mechanics - 1836 - 672 pages
...position of the planets made upon this hypothesis of their gravitating towards the Sun with a force directly as their mass and inversely as the square of their distance from the Sup are found to agree very well with the observed positions, if the calculations extend over... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1856 - 556 pages
...revealed to human intellect. It is, that all the heavenly bodies attract one another by a force varying directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance from one another ; the mass of a body being considered as the sum of the particles of matter constituting... | |
 | Matthew Boyd Hope - Rhetoric - 1859 - 314 pages
...the case of our illustration, the law is, that nil bodies attract each other with a force, varying directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. The entire completeness of this step iii the inductive process, supposes the ability to explain all... | |
 | William Somerville Orr - Science - 1860 - 540 pages
...revealed to human intellect. It is, that all the heavenly bodies attract one another by a force varying directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance from one another ; the mass of a body being considered as the sum of the particles of matter constituting... | |
 | P. McGregor - Logic - 1862 - 490 pages
...much more correct to say that "ponderable bodies are urged towards each other, by a force which varies directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance," or, that "every tangible substance tends to move towards every other, with a force which varies directly... | |
 | William James Rolfe, Joseph Anthony Gillet - Astronomy - 1868 - 328 pages
...inversely as the square of their distance from him. Hence they must be acted upon by a force which varies directly as their mass and inversely as the square of their distance from the sun. It is also found that the planets must be acted upon by such a force, in order that they... | |
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The relative effects of these two bodies on the oceanic waters are directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance... 
