 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 them.  Fourteen Weeks in Descriptive Astronomy - Page 34by Joel Dorman Steele - 1874 - 336 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Henry Pratt - Earth - 1861 - 168 pages
...causes 120 ATTRACTIONS AND LAPLACE'S FUNCTIONS. 1. THE Law of Universal Gravitation teaches us, that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force varying directly as the mass of the attracting particle and inversely as the square of the distance... | |
 | Science - 1863 - 538 pages
...polar, 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 as the square... | |
 | Science - 1863 - 530 pages
...polar, 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 as the square... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 852 pages
...generalisation to be afterwards mentioned, Newton is understood to have at first rested his law of universal gravitation : ' 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... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - Amusements - 1866 - 472 pages
...the universal law of gravitation, and to pronounce upon it in the following memorable words : — " 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 as the squares of... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears, David Allyn Gorton, Charles H. Woodman - Periodicals - 1867 - 442 pages
...principal 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... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - Chemistry - 1869 - 470 pages
...of attraction, which, of course, could be no other than that indicated by Newton as the attraction of gravitation. " Every particle of matter in the...attracts every other particle of matter with a force or power directly proportional to the quantity oj matter in each,, and decreasing as the squares of... | |
 | Charles Joyce White - Astronomy - 1872 - 300 pages
...proportional to the squares of their distances from the third body. This, then, is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, •with a force directly proportional to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely proportional... | |
 | Joel Dorman Steele - Astronomy - 1874 - 340 pages
...attraction of that great central orb compels all the planets to revolve about it in elliptical orbits, and holds them with an irresistible power in their appointed...announced this grand Law of Gravitation : EVERY PARTICLE OP MATTER IN THE UNIVERSE ATTRACTS EVERY OTHER PARTICLE OF MATTER WITH A FORCE DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL... | |
 | W. G. Willson - Dynamics - 1874 - 294 pages
...arrived at. The motion of a projectile in air is too difficult a problem to be discussed here. 84. LAW OF GRAVITATION. — Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force, in the direction of the line joining the two, whose magnitude is directly proportional... | |
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