 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Eighteenth century - 1794 - 538 pages
...shewn by Newton, says Bergman, that' the great bodies of the universe exert the power of attraction, directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances. But, the tendency to union, which is observed in all neighbouring bodies on the surface of the earth... | |
 | 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
...motion of 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 Wakefield Francis - Medicine - 1828 - 634 pages
...gravity to which I have before referred as an example. It is expressed in the following words : " that bodies attract each other directly as their masses and inversely as the square of their distances." Now if it can be proved that there is any one body in the universe, with... | |
 | Mary Somerville - Astronomy - 1831 - 710 pages
...produce the ebb and flow of the sea. 343. Having thus proved from Kepler's laws, that the celestial bodies attract each other directly as their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance, La Place inverts the problem, and assuming the law of gravitation to be that... | |
 | Child rearing - 1836 - 422 pages
...matter is endowed, and belongs to particles as well as to masses, all bodies universally attracting each other, directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of the distance. But when a body is made to revolve on its axis, a new force is called into action, which... | |
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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... 
