Law of gravitation: Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them. Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 34by Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1848 - 380 pages
...majestic motion, bore testimony, ample and unequivocal, to the truth of the great law of universal gravitation. Every particle of matter in the universe...attracts every other particle of matter with a force which is proportioned directly to the mass, and which decreases as the square of the distance at which... | |
| J. D. Bell - Conduct of life - 1850 - 488 pages
...you see it on record. It is the theory of universal gravitation — the grand generalization, that every particle of matter in the universe, attracts every other particle of matter with a force or power directly proportioned to the quantity of matter in each, and decreasing as the squares of... | |
| William Parkinson Wilson - Dynamics - 1801 - 192 pages
...effected with great accuracy. An account of the experiments will be given hereafter. 33. Since, then, every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter according to the law just explained, we are able by this law and the equations of motion which we have... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 374 pages
...majestic motion, bore testimony, ample and unequivocal, to the truth of the great law of universal gravitation. Every particle of matter in the universe...attracts every other particle of matter, with a force which is proportioned directly to the mass, and which decreases as the square of the distance at which... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1851 - 366 pages
...majestic motion, bore testimony, ample and unequivocal, to the truth of the great law of universal gravitation. Every particle of matter in the universe...attracts every other particle of matter, with a force which is proportioned directly to the mass, and which decreases as the square of the distance at which... | |
| Ohio state medical society - Medicine - 1853 - 338 pages
...the labors of a few computations to a friend. When they were completed, the law which proved, that "every particle of matter in the universe, attracts every other particle of matter, with a force or power, directly proportioned to the quantity of matter. in each, and decreasing as the squares of... | |
| Stephen Watson Fullom - 1858 - 346 pages
...pervades every existence by one common property, represented in this sublime and immutable law — Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force or power directly proportioned to (he quantity of matter in each, and decreasing as the VOL. ii. H... | |
| Ormsby Macknight Mitchel - 1860 - 360 pages
...fact that it is subjected to the influence of all the others. As, under the great law of universal gravitation, every particle of matter in the universe...attracts every other particle of matter with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass, it follows that each... | |
| Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1860 - 424 pages
...the fact that it is subjected to the influence of all the others. As under the great law of universal gravitation every particle of matter in the universe...attracts every other particle of matter with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass, it follows that each... | |
| John Henry Pepper - Science - 1860 - 474 pages
...the universal law of gravitation, and to pronounce upon it in the following memorable words: — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force or power directly proportional to the quantity oj matter in each, and decreasing as the squares of... | |
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