 | 1819 - 654 pages
...in given directions and with given; velocities, and gravitating to one another with forces that are directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances, — to trace the orbits they describe, and to find their positions at any given time. This is no other... | |
 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - Astronomy - 1809 - 406 pages
...rotation, and composed of an infinity of fluids, of different densities, whose particles attract each other directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances. Legendre had already solved thia problem by a very ingenious analysis, which supposes the mass homogeneous.... | |
 | William Marrat, Pishey Thompson - 1812 - 488 pages
...matter within the bodies; and hence, in general, the force urging the bodies towards one another will be directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances. Thus, by mechanical action, the. Newtonian law of gravitation is explained in all its parts. The principal... | |
 | Science - 1818 - 514 pages
...first, the great fundamental law of attraction that all the particles of matter attract one another directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances : and secondly, that a body of any shape will attract a particle of matter any where, with the same... | |
 | 1825 - 424 pages
...by the industry and sagacity of man ; viz. " That all the particles of matter attract one another, directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances." Having thus experimentally examined the nature of gravitation as far, at least, as that can be effected... | |
 | John Frederic Daniell - Chemistry - 1839 - 606 pages
...granted two fundamental laws of attraction, first, that all the particles of matter attract one another directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances; secondly, that a body of any shape will attract a particle of matter anywhere, with the same force... | |
 | Roswell Park - Best books - 1841 - 624 pages
...Newton. The planets gravitate towards the sun, and towards each other; that is, they are attracted, directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances. Hence, they would all fall together, and meet in their common centre of gravity, did not their motion... | |
 | John Lee COMSTOCK (and HOBLYN (Richard Dennis)), John Lee COMSTOCK - 1846 - 506 pages
...be succinctly stated in the following formula:—The gravitating forces of bodies are to each other, directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances. Thus, if the mass of one "Reduce the given time to seconds; take the square of the number of seconds... | |
 | Roswell Park - Best books - 1847 - 626 pages
...Newton. The planets gravitate, towards the sun, and towards each other; that is, they are attracted, directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances. Hence, they would all fall together, and meet in their common centre of gravity, did not their motion... | |
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But such a personification of "force" is a remnant of barbaric thought, in no wise sanctioned by physical science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the... 
