| sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...instance, and provisionally, his law of universal gravitation, which may be thus abstractly stated : — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...and inversely to the square of the distance between them." In this abstract and general form, however, the proposition is not applicable to the case before... | |
| Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...and provisidwally, his law of universal gravitation, which may be tliijis abstractly stated : — " Every particle of matter in the' universe attracts...and inversely to the square of the distance between them." In this abstract and general form, however, the proposition is not applicable to the case before... | |
| Thomas Webster - 1837 - 512 pages
...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... | |
| Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - 566 pages
...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...and inversely to the square of the distance between them." Whatever attempts may have been made by metaphysical writers, to reason away the connexion of... | |
| 1839 - 272 pages
...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... | |
| T H. Howe - 1842 - 458 pages
...that case, the general law applies in its strict wording." — Sir John Herschefs Astronomy p. 237. " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...particle with a force directly proportioned to the mas of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them." — Ibid,... | |
| 1905 - 864 pages
...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 - 534 pages
...gravitation and attraction, by which all bodies, liquid or solid, are governed. Newton's words are — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass (and density) of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them... | |
| John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - 672 pages
...and provisionally, his law of universal gravitation, which may be thus abstractly stated:—"Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every...and inversely to the square of the distance between them." In this abstract and general form, however, the proposition is not applicable to the case before... | |
| Archibald Tucker Ritchie - 1850 - 580 pages
...opinion of astronomers. Sir John F. Herschel, in referring to Newton's law of gravitation, says — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting partiele, and inversely to the square of the distance between them." And again — " It is in consequence... | |
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