...alluded, may be expressed as follows : LAWS OF FORCE. 1. Every particle of matter, at a sensible distance, attracts every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. In electricity and magnetism, repulsion is also exhibited, acting in accordance with...

...may be expressed as follows '. LAWS OF FORCE. 1. Every particle of matter, at a sensible distance, attracts every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. In electricity and magnetism, repulsion is also exhibited, acting in accordance with...

...which counteracts the centrifugal force of bodies in motion. Stated abstractedly, that law is this : " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force di;ly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, .- inversely to the square of the distance...

...these worlds, by the fact that it is subjected to the influence of all the others. As under the great law of universal gravitation every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance and directly as the mass,...

...terrestrial gravitation, previously established, he arrived at a still more general conclusion, namely, that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses directly, and the square of their mutual distance inversely,...

...mechanical forces. 1. Universal gravitation. — The principle known as universal gravitation is this, that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which varies inversely as the square of the distance, ie, when the distance is doubled, the force is...

...bodies are attracted towards its centre. By that universal attraction (of gravitation) by which ? " 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 known phenomena of physical change. CHAPTER I. ON MATTER AND ETHER. 1. EVERY particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance between them. This is the great discovery of Newton, which must form the natural starting...

...views, and a generalisation to be afterwards mentioned, Newton is understood to have at first rested his law of universal gravitation : ' Every particle of...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...

...subject to one source of great uncertainty. Newton laid down the law of universal gravitation, " That every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportionate to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance...