 | New Church gen. confer - 1874 - Počet stránok 608
...by analysing the motions of the planets on mechanical principles, that every particle of ponderable matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance, astronomers have been ftble, in virtue of that one law of... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - Počet stránok 500
...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... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - Počet stránok 444
...and provisidwally, his law of universal gravitation, which may be tliijis 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... | |
 | Thomas Webster - 1837 - Počet stránok 512
...surface. For this purpose, he reasoned on his law of universal gravitation, which may be thus stated; ' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance.' Reasoning on this law, he calculated, from the effect which... | |
 | 1839 - Počet stránok 272
...from gravitation. The great Newton discovered and established the law of universal gravitation, " that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance :" by which is meant, that if a body be attracted by the earth... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - Počet stránok 566
...matter that the earth consists of. Gravity is a real power, of whose agency we have daily experience. " 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... | |
 | T H. Howe - 1842 - Počet stránok 458
...that case, the general law applies in its strict wording." — Sir John Herschefs Astronomy p. 237. " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mas of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance... | |
 | 1905 - Počet stránok 864
...constitution; this being, of course, only a particular case of Newton's law of gravitation, which tells us that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which depends on their masses and on the distances which separate them; the attraction being proportionately... | |
 | 1846 - Počet stránok 534
...gravitation and attraction, by which all bodies, liquid or solid, are governed. Newton's words are — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass (and density) of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - 1848 - Počet stránok 380
...perfectly with the law, and rising as the inquiry was pursued, he at length announced this grand prevailing law : Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter with a force or power directly proportioned to the quantity of matter in each, and decreasing... | |
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that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances... 
