 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 236by Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 422 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Simon Newcomb - Astronomy - 1878 - 616 pages
...produce any important effect. We are thus led to the law of universal gravitation, expressed as follows : Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly as their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance which separates them. § 2. Gravitation... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Physics - 1878 - 324 pages
...the stone back to itself — an instance of a general law, one operation of an ever-active force. For every particle of matter in the universe * attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses, and increasing as the square of the distance decreases.... | |
 | Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) - Great Britain - 1878 - 480 pages
...investigations of free thought with respect to the mechanism of the heavens. His general law was announced, that "every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of the masses, and inversely as the square of the distance." Under... | |
 | Thomas Harper - Metaphysics - 1881 - 798 pages
...the kind of Judgments here alluded to. Take, for instance, the law of universal gravitation, — that every particle of matter in the universe attracts...particle with a force directly proportioned to the massoflAe attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance Idioeen them. The two principal... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1869 - 534 pages
...medium of the Philosophia? Naturalls Principia Mathematica. The law of universal gravitation, that 'every particle of matter in the universe attracts...other particle, with a force directly proportioned to its mass, and inversely to the square of its distance from the particle attracted,' was not reached... | |
 | Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden - Astronomy - 1879 - 534 pages
...NEWTON was able to formulate his great law of universal gravitation iu these comprehensive words : " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly as the masses of the two particles, and inversely as the square of the distance which separates them.... | |
 | Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden - Astronomy - 1880 - 542 pages
...NEWTON was able to formulate his great law of universal gravitation in these comprehensive words : ' ' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly as the masses of the two particles, and inversely as the square of the distance which separates them.'1'1... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...Astronomer, who immediately recognized and promulgated the law of Universal Gravitation, as follows : " Every particle of matter in the Universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the quantity of matter contained in each, and decreasing inversely as the squares of... | |
 | Edward John C. Morton - 1880 - 58 pages
...satisfies the facts. | V. — Of the verification of the Law of Gravitation. 1. The 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... | |
 | George Minchin Minchin - Statics - 1880 - 568 pages
...POTENTIAL. SECTION I. Solid Distributions of Matter in General. 241.] 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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