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" The squares of the times of revolution (or years) of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their average distances from the sun. "
Astronomy: A Popular Handbook - Page 186
by Harold Jacoby - 1913 - 435 pages
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Elements of Astronomy ...: With Explanatory Notes, and Questions for Examination

John Brocklesby - 1855 - 394 pages
...describes areas proportioned to tfie times. THIRD LAW. The squares of the periodic1 times of the planets are proportional to the cubes" of their average distances from the sun. EXTENT OF THE EARTH'S ORBIT. 194. "We have discovered the/orm of the earth's orbit by ascertaining...
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A New Astronomy

David Peck Todd - 1897 - 508 pages
...over equal areas of the ellipse in equal times. (Ill) The squares of the periodic times of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their average' distances from the sun. Kepler was unable to give any physical explanation of these laws. He merely ascertained that all the...
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Superstrings and Other Things: A Guide to Physics

Carlos I. Calle - 2001 - 682 pages
...equal intervals of time. Harmonic law or law of periods: The squares of the periods of any two planets are proportional to the cubes of their average distances from the Sun. Newton's law of universal gravitation Kepler had deduced that a force or anima matrix was needed to...
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Understanding Physics

David C. Cassidy, Gerald Holton, F. James Rutherford - 2002 - 857 pages
...Kepler's third law of planetary motion, the harmonic law: The squares of the periods of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their average distances from the Sun, for all of the planets. If we call the period of a planet T, and its average distance from the Sun...
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Biographical Dictionary of Great Astronomers

G. Ramamurthy - 2005 - 276 pages
...Mathematician for the states of upper Austria. In Linz, he propounded his third law of planetary motion: that the squares of the planetary periods are proportional to the cubes of their mean distances from the Sun. These three laws of Kepler gave a sound basis for all later work on the...
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The Rosen Comprehensive Dictionary of Math

2007 - 250 pages
...traces an equal area in any equal periods of time. 3. Squares of the times of orbit of the planets are proportional to the cubes of their average distances from the sun. See Appendix III. keyboard Computer input device consisting of a standard qwerty keyboard, usually...
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