...or with slow and majestic 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...

...and provisionally, his law of universal gravitation, which may be thus abstractly stated:—"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...

...opinion of astronomers. Sir John F. Herschel, in referring to Newton's law of gravitation, says — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting partiele, and inversely to the square of the distance...

...or with slow and majestic 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...

...or with slow and majestic 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...

...instance, and provisionally, his law of universal gravitation, which may be thus abstractly stated : — " 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...

...advancement in the study of Celestial Mechanics. Already the sublime truth announced by Newton, that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying reciprocally as the squares of their mutual distances, has been realised in tbe motions of those vast...

...of matter in the universe gravitates towards every other particle, or, attracts and is attracted by every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. This law, simple as it is, will account for all the wonderful phenomena which are the...

...Apple to his feet and established the memorable, universal Law ; namely, that, every individual partick of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a. force, directly as the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely as the squares of their distances. And...

...velocity of projection, and that the magnitude and form of the orbit is calculable. He who announced that every particle of matter in the universe attracts...particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance, and directly as the mass, ivas not ignorant of, or indifferent to, the mutual attraction...