 | Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - Religion and science - 1888 - 360 pages
...tension. The law of gravitation states that any two masses of matter attract each other with a force directly proportional to the product of the two masses, and inversely proportional to the distance between them ; and so we might multiply examples. Notice, nothing is affirmed in regard to... | |
 | Ottokar Tumlirz - Electrostatics - 1889 - 306 pages
...direction of this force is that of the straight line joining the particles. The magnitude of the force is directly proportional to the product of the two masses, and inversely proportional to the square of their distance. * Cf. Mach, loc. cit. p. 178. t The discovery of Neptune by Adams and Leverrier... | |
 | Josiah Parsons Cooke (Jr.) - Religion and science - 1893 - 362 pages
...tension. The law of gravitation states that any two masses of matter attract each other with a force directly proportional to the product of the two masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them ; and so we might multiply examples. Notice, nothing is affirmed in regard... | |
 | 1901 - 530 pages
...gravitation discovered by Newton, every portion of matter attracts every other portion with a force directly proportional to the product of the two masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Kepler had given the laws, deduced from observation, according to which... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1919 - 878 pages
...discovered by Newton, according to which every portion of matter attracts every other portion with a force directly proportional to the product of the two masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. The motion of the planets round the sun in ellipses, each marking out... | |
 | Charles Morris - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1921 - 606 pages
...gravitation discovered by Newton, every portion of matter appears to attract every other portion with a force directly proportional to the product of the two masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Kepler had given the laws, deduced from observation, according to which... | |
 | Charles Morris - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1923 - 504 pages
...gravitation discovered by Newton, every portion of matter appears to attract every other portion with a force directly proportional to the product of the two masses, and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. Kepler had given the laws, deduced from observation, according to which... | |
 | James Carson Howard - Calculus of tensors - 1979 - 410 pages
...gravitation states that every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, the direction of the force being in the line joining the two points (ref.... | |
 | James Carson Howard - Calculus of tensors - 1979 - 416 pages
...gravitation states that every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, the direction of the force being in the line joining the two points (ref.... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - Biography & Autobiography - 1980 - 428 pages
...quantitative one of having aether considerations yield a resultant effect that is a force of attraction both directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. And so it is no wonder that, in despair, Newton would (as recorded by... | |
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Newton's law of gravitation states that every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the product of the two masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, the... 
