...know nothing except these rules or laws of its operation. When we say that bodies attract one another directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance, we affirm something positive, something which a priori reasoning could not have disclosed to us, as...

...action of a cause which is unknown to scientific inquiry. To say that all bodies attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance, is no explanation of the reason why it is so, or why they do not attract in other ratios. At the back...

...bodies are determined by the same great law : viz. , AU bodies attract each other -with a force varying directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. HERSCHEL discovered, in 17s1, a new planet called Uranus; and in 1s46 another was discovered, and named...

...that John is locked up in jail. So that all bodies near the earth gravitate toward it with a force directly as their mass and inversely as the square of their distance from its centre is a universal law of Nature. The Niagara River and the precipice are facts, and the...

...ocean occasioned by the combined action of the sun and moon. The relative effects of these two bodies are directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance ; and the moon, although very small in comparison with the sun, is so much nearer that she exerts by...

...conceive that there might be a different law than this according to which bodies attract one another directly as their mass and inversely as the square of their distance from one another. But no other law is conceivable for rational beings than that of justice, of mutual...

...God,' pp. 69-76. tive influence which material bodies exert on each other — viz., that it varies directly as their mass and inversely as the square of their distance. By means of this intimate knowledge we are able to explain the motions and positions of the heavenly...

...whether the intelligence to know it exists or not. But the law that material bodies attract each other directly as their mass and inversely as the square of their distance from each other is an induction, and a different law is entirely conceivable. It seems a strange fact...

...example, the law of gravitation affirms that, without exception, all physical bodies attract each other, directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. But this law, or abstract formula, explains only the movement of bodies near the earth, of the planets...

...example, the law of gravitation affirms that, without exception, all physical bodies attract each other, directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. But this law, or abstract formula, explains only the movement of bodies near the earth, of the planets...