 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1848 - 380 pages
...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... | |
 | 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 - 366 pages
...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... | |
 | Stephen Watson Fullom - 1858 - 334 pages
...Deity, who pervades every existence by one common property, represented in this sublime and immutable law — Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...matter with a force or power directly proportioned to (he quantity of matter in each, and decreasing as the VOL. ii. H squares of the distances which separate... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1859 - 382 pages
...its mighty movement. He could not live to accomplish but a small portion of this great work.Rapidly did he extend his theory of gravitation to the planets...proportioned to the quantity of matter in each, and decrees ing as the squares of the distances which separate the particles increase. Having reached this... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1860 - 406 pages
...its mighty movement. He could not live to accomplish but a small portion of this great work.Rapidly did he extend his theory of gravitation to the planets...particle of matter in the universe attracts every otfier particle of matter with a force or power directly proportioned to the quantity of matter in... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1860 - 698 pages
...announced this grand prevailing law : Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every otfier particle of matter with a force or power directly...to the quantity of matter in each, and decreasing at the squares of the distances which separate the particles increase. Having reached this wonderful... | |
 | 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...particle of matter with a force or power directly proportional to the quantity oj matter in each, and decreasing as the squares of the distances which... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1860 - 396 pages
...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 Pratt - 1860 - 290 pages
...ATTEACTIONS AND LAPLACE'S FUNCTIONS. 1. THE Law of Universal Gravitation teaches us, that every particle ot matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force varying directly as the mass of the attracting particle and inversely as the square of the distance... | |
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GRAVITATION.* — Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force directly proportional to its mass, and decreasing as the square of the distance Fig. 
