...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...

...notice another form of the same attraction, which acts between masses at all distances. GRAND LAW OP 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...

...inversely proportional to the squares of their distances from the third body. This, then, is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. Every particle of matter...universe attracts every other particle, •with a force directly proportional to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely proportional to the square...

...received, that, as gravity is found directly proportional to the mass of the gravitating bodies, so every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is directly proportionate to the mass of the attracting particles, and inversely proportionate...

...now been so extensively verified, as to be susceptible of the following precise expression — viz. ' 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...

...matter) will be carefully considered in the next Division of this Treatise, may be thus enunciated. 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...

...now been so extensively verified, as to be susceptible of the following precise expression — viz. ' 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...

...The sequence is inevitable. The second instance is the law of gravitation. Every particle of matter attracts every other 'particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the -distance. This causes the motion of the sun, moon, planets, and stars ; at the same time the attraction...

...The sequence is inevitable. The second instance is the law of gravitation. Every particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. This causes the motion of the sun, moon, planets, and stars ; at the same time the attraction...

...The sequence is inevitable. The second instance is the law of gravitation. Every particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. This causes the motion of the sun, moon, planets, and stars; at the same time the attraction...