 | Benjamin Martin - Science - 1747 - 398 pages
...acting oa the fingle Particle A ; fince then each fingle Particle AGAIN : Since the Attraction is always directly as the Quantity of Matter, and inversely as the Square of the Diftance, it follows, that were the internal Parts of the Earth a perfedt Void, or hollow Concavity,... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...and on the distance of the body which is acted upon. The force of gravity, therefore, is said to be directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. As these expressions occur frequently in the course of this work, it will be useful to the... | |
 | James Gregory - Necessity (Philosophy) - 1819 - 454 pages
...Newton's Principia, and inform us, that this great and immortal philosopher proved that attraction is directly, as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance—Then by the help of a diagram and some algebraic formulae of his own invention, he might... | |
 | James Ferguson - Eclipses - 1823 - 406 pages
...distance of the body upon which that force is exerted. The force of gravity, therefore, is said to be directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. As these expression! occur frequently in the course of this work, it will be useful to the... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...tends toward the central body, C, is called a centripetal force ; and in the case of gravitation, it is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. The force by which the revolving body, B, tends to move along the line, i,/,is called a centrifugal... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Chemistry - 1830 - 546 pages
...upon the original constitution of things ; and is as truly a law of the physical universe, as that its gravitation is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. then the numerical relations would not be in the least disturbed, only the numbers expressing... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1831 - 366 pages
...fixed stars, and is the cause of the orbicular motion of the heavenly orbes. It also extends to aJl terrestrial masses of matter, and is the cause of...another at the distance of two feet, with a force of 30 pounds, then at the distance of four feet its force of attraction will be only j as much, or 9 Ib.... | |
 | Adam Clarke - God - 1831 - 334 pages
...afterwards demonstrated by Sir Isaac Newton, as the necessary result of a still more general law, viz. that gravitation is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. Thus, if the distance of but one planet from the sun be known, and the periodic revolutions... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1836 - 366 pages
...received various names, according to the circumstances under which it is observed to act. Thus/that kind of attraction which extends to all kinds and...force will increase, or diminish, as the square of the distanced Thus, if one body attracts another, at the distance of two feet, with a force of 36 pounds,... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1838 - 376 pages
...situated within a hollow sphere, would remain at rest in any part of the void.* The force of gravity is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance ; that is, G : g'.'. ~ : JL; or Got^t (Art. 4 and 7.) Let CAD represent the surface of a hollow... | |
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The conception of a force acting directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance... 
