 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1855 - 318 pages
...every body in the universe, whether great or small, tends towards every other, with a force which is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. As this force acts as though bodies were drawn towards each other by a mutual attraction,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Religion and science - 1856 - 44 pages
...what is called a law, or a force acting according to a fixed rule. The conception of a force acting directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance, belongs to the mind alone ; but when we find from observation that it is realized in nature,... | |
 | Emma Willard - Astronomy - 1856 - 230 pages
...great law of universal gravitation — that the centres of all bodies are attracted towards each other, directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of their distance. There is a close resemblance between the telescope of Gregory and Newton. The concave... | |
 | Henry Clay Fish - Sermons - 1857 - 874 pages
...what is called a law, or a force acting according to a futed rule. The conception of a force acting directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance, belongs to the mind alone ; but when we find from observation that it is realized in nature,... | |
 | Henry Clay Fish - Sermons - 1857 - 866 pages
...what is called a law, or a force acting according to a fixed rule. The conception of a force acting directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance, belongs to the mind alone ; but when we find from observation that it is realized in nature,... | |
 | Education - 1856 - 732 pages
...what is called a law, or a force acting according to a fixed rule. The conception of a force acting directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance, belongs to the mind alone ; but when we find, from observation, that it is realized in nature,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Astronomy - 1858 - 318 pages
...every body in the universe, whether great or small, tends towards every other, with a force which is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. As this force acts as though bodies were drawn towards each other by a mutual attraction,... | |
 | Laurens Perseus Hickok - History - 1858 - 400 pages
...centre, and the reacting attraction comes back. In all globes, therefore, the attractive force must be directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. But this is true, again, not only of all globes in respect to each one's own portions of... | |
 | 1860 - 720 pages
...treatise, has done, as we think, all that can be done, to show that the law of Gravity — for example — directly, as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance — must be a law, if the universe is to be governed by gravity. But he has not shown, nor... | |
 | Emma Willard - Astronomy - 1860 - 316 pages
...great Law of Universal Gravitation — that the centres of all bodies are attracted towards each other, directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of their distance. 23. The fertile mind of Newton was not confined to Astronomy. He made important discoveries... | |
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The conception of a force acting directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance... 
