 | Augustus Young - Circle-squaring - 1846 - 304 pages
...purpose, as we can desire. Kepler, in addition to the great law, " That the squares of the periods of the planets, are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun," also discovered the important fact, " That the motion of an individual planet revolving in an eccentric... | |
 | Augustus Young - Circle-squaring - 1846 - 304 pages
...is unity or 1, having its diameter 2, for the reason, that the squares of the periods of a system of planets, are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun ; and consequently when the distances of the planets of a system are numerically proportioned to any... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 538 pages
...Kepler's third law. The celebrated law of Kepler states that the squares of the periods of revolution of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. Kirkwood's law makes the squares of the periods of rotation of the planets inversely as the cubes of... | |
 | Richard Phillips (sir.) - 1851
...orbits, of which the sun occupies one of the foci. 3. That the squares of the times of the revolutions of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. The announcement of these laws by Kepler led to a further inquiry into the causes which governed these... | |
 | 1851 - 716 pages
...planets together. This third law is expressed as follows : the squares of the time.s of revolution of two planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. The great value of this law consists in its presenting a geometrical proportion, so that knowing three... | |
 | Augustus Young - 1852 - 56 pages
...computed,—as in caso of Kepler's great law of planetary motions, viz: that the squares of the periods of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. Observation and experiment, in the absence of all evidence to the contrary, have pretty fully established... | |
 | Augustus Young - Circle-squaring - 1853 - 44 pages
...respective orbits. Kepler's first great law of planetary motion, viz : " That the squares of the periods of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun," is full of instruction ; as thereby we are enabled to compute their relative distances from the sun,... | |
 | John Brocklesby - Astronomy - 1855 - 394 pages
...KEPLER'S LAW OF DISTANCES. From the third law of Kepler ; viz., that the squares of the periodic times of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun, the unknown mean distance of a planet can be found, when its periodic time is ascertained together... | |
 | Johann Heinrich Kurtz - Astronomy in the Bible - 1857 - 536 pages
...planet, will sweep over equal areas in equal portions of time. 3. The squares of the periodic times of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun." From these Newton ardent, and all-enlivening light. The nature of light is still a problem, which,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1859 - 1008 pages
...inverse square of the distance ; and from the third law, that the squares of the periodic times of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun, he inferred that the same force, diminishing in such ratio, must pervade the entire system. Here, then,... | |
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That the planets all move in elliptic orbits, of which the sun occupies one of the foci. 3. That the squares of the times of the revolutions of the planets are as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. 
