 | Henry Clay Fish - Sermons - 1871 - 926 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,... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Christian ethics - 1872 - 444 pages
...which the force acts that causes a uniform fact, — as when it is said that the force of gravity is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. As thus applied, the characteristics of law are uniformity, and, so far as the human will... | |
 | Laurens Perseus Hickok - Religion - 1872 - 372 pages
...hesitation in accepting the hypothesis as fact ; and the ratio of this tendency was further found to be directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. Such general formula enables us to go out to the matter of all worlds, and determine its... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Algebra - 1873 - 396 pages
...to be 80 times that of the moon, their distance 240,000 miles, and the force of attraction to vary directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance, at what point between them will a third body be equally attracted by the earth and moon?... | |
 | Henry Hartshorne - 1874 - 1086 pages
...tendency of bodies to fall towards the earth's centre. The law of gravitation is that " the attraction is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance." Capillarity. — The attraction exerted between solids and liquids. ( 331 ) It has received... | |
 | Criticism - 1876 - 826 pages
...intelligible about it is what Newton discovered, viz : its rationale or mode of operating — that it operates directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. And this is a mathematical thought or ratio. The reason or intelligence in the law is what... | |
 | Henry Kiddle - Astronomy - 1877 - 296 pages
...it at more than twice that of the earth. e. Superficial Gravity at Mercury. — Since gravity varies directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance from the centre, at the surface of Mercury it must be nearly (t5JSu)2 X .063, or VX .063 =... | |
 | Webster Wells - Algebra - 1879 - 468 pages
...second and the reciprocal of the third. Thus, in physics, the attraction of a planetary body varies directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. 363. If A varies as B, then A is equal to Б multiplied by some constant quantity. A:a —... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - Subconsciousness - 1880 - 524 pages
...all bounds. The inconsistencies do not even end here. For " the attractive force," withal, "must be directly as the quantity of matter and inversely as the square of the distance." (P. 154.) Now as in approaching the centre the repulsive force increases by a more rapid... | |
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The conception of a force acting directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance... 
