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... History of Astronomy - Page 67by George Forbes - 1909 - 200 pagesFull view - About this book
| Science - 1863 - 530 pages
...producing a ring or belt of matter thirteen miles high at the equator. Now as, according to the law of gravitation, every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter, wherever situate, with a force directly proportioned to their mass, and varying inversely... | |
| William Hughes - Astronomical geography - 1864 - 188 pages
...exert give rise to all the celestial phenomena. Universal Gravitation is, then, the principle that " every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force which is inversely poportional to the square of the distance between them" or, in other words, with... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - 1865 - 312 pages
...the last to rush from particular phenomena to general theories— in the grand cosmical law : — ' 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 this law... | |
| Richard Anthony Proctor - Astronomy - 1865 - 302 pages
...Newton—the last to rush from particular phenomena to general theories—in the grand cosmical law :—' 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 this law... | |
| Louis Figuier - Geology, Stratigraphic - 1866 - 542 pages
...which render it prohable that it is derivative. 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. Under this law a stone falls to the ground... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - Periodicals - 1870 - 560 pages
...identical with the law itself, and not something different from it. Thus, for example, the fact that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a certain force, is the law of gravity. The observance is the law, and the law is the observance. There... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1867 - 442 pages
...inequalities, and observations were needed to give their true magnitude. According to Newton's law of gravitation, every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle proportionately to its mass; but the fixed stars are so remote that, to our ineasuremnt, they influence... | |
| William James Rolfe, Joseph Anthony Gillet - Astronomy - 1868 - 328 pages
...without making this supposition. SUMMARY. • Every particle of matter in our solar system acts upon every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of their distance from one another. This supposition is necessary to explain the tides (204), the spheroidal... | |
| John Henry Pepper - Chemistry - 1869 - 470 pages
...attraction, which, of course, could be no other than that indicated by Newton as the attraction of gravitation. " 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... | |
| Royal Society of Tasmania - 1871 - 540 pages
...produced on the earth by the sun will have their maximum at these two dates. It is a well known law that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance... | |
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