 that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances...  Astronomy - Page 224by sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833Full view - About this book
 | James Nasmyth, James Carpenter - Lunar craters - 1874 - 308 pages
...solve the problem we have to appeal to Newton's law of universal gravitation. This law teaches us that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportional to the mass, and inversely proportional to the square of the * distance... | |
 | William Stanley Jevons - Logic - 1874 - 984 pages
...exactly true ; but we cannot calculate out in any one case its accurate results. The law asserts that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force depending on the masses of the particles and their distance. We cannot then know the force acting on... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - Theism - 1875 - 436 pages
...millions of miles off, in preference to moving in any other direction, the answer given is that, " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product... | |
 | John Nelson Stockwell - Lunar theory - 1875 - 74 pages
...subjected to calculation by NEWTON. The theory when regarded as a law of nature may be stated as follows : Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies directly as its mass, and inversely as the square of the distance between them. Mathematicians... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1876 - 656 pages
...this whole pomp of stars might have been evolved. The law of gravitation enunciated by Newton is, that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which diminishes as the square of the distance increases. Thus the sun and the earth mutually pull... | |
 | John Tyndall - Science - 1876 - 706 pages
...this whole pomp of stars might have been evolved. The law of gravitation enunciated by Newton is, that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which diminishes as the square of the distance increases. Thus the sun and the earth mutually pull... | |
 | Alexander Mackay - Geomorphology - 1877 - 184 pages
...universal space. It was Newton that first gave clear expression to the law of gravitation in these words : "Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportional to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely as the square of the distance between... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1877 - 364 pages
...always with results completely confirmatory of Newton's statement of the law of gravitation, namely, every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly proportional to... | |
 | John Merry Ross - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1877 - 625 pages
...second and third laws, combined with his own principles, the grand theory of universal gravitation, that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every^ other .particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnit^<,de is directly as the product... | |
 | George Minchin Minchin - 1877 - 470 pages
...POTENTIAL. SECTION I. Solid Distributions of Matter in General. 229. Universal Law of Attraction.—Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two particles, and whose magnitude is directly proportional... | |
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