 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1809 - 716 pages
...they are expressed, he found that the squares of the times of the revolutions of the planets are to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun ; and that the same law applies equally to their satellites. See KBPLER. At the same time also that... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - Astronomy - 1816 - 490 pages
...of the periodic times, in which the planets perform their annual revolutions, are in proportion to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun; so that the distance of any one of them being known, the distance of any other may be easily determined.... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 370 pages
...they are expressed, he found that the squares of the times of the revolutions of the planets are to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun; and that the same law applies equally to their satellites. See KEFLF.R. At the same time also that... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...that the squares of the revolutionary periods of the planets are in exactly the same proportion to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. Lastly, I may add, that all our knowledge of mechanical astronomy has been derived from the motions... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - Marine insurance - 1822 - 1008 pages
...squares of the periodic times in which the planets perform their annual revolutions, are in proportion to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun ; so that the distance of any one of them being known, the distance of any other may be easily determined.... | |
 | George G. Carey - Astronomy - 1825 - 274 pages
...farther they are from the sun, their motion is the slowed. Thenperiodic times of revolution being to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. Now according to this remarkable law, the length of a revolution of the earth round the sun, should... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1835 - 398 pages
...further they are from the sun their motion is the slower: their periodic times of revolution being to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. Now, according to this remarkable law, the length of a revolution of the earth round the sun should... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 572 pages
...his patience. On the 8th of May, 1618, he discovered that the squares of the periodic times are to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. His discovery that the planets move round the sun in ellipses, of which the sun is the focus, cleared... | |
 | Isaac Wilber Jackson - Mechanics - 1852 - 202 pages
...periodic times of any two planets (or the times of the complete revolution of each about the sun), are to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun (or the semitransverse axes of their orbits). The satellites, in their revolutions about their pri«... | |
 | Robert Main - Astronomy - 1852 - 186 pages
...The law simply enunciated is this, " that the squares of their periodic times of revolution are to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun or the semi-axes major of their orbits." This is the law which we have before adverted to in the discussion... | |
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... two planets are to each other as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. 
