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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... "
The Elements of Astronomy: Or, The World as it Is, and as it Appears - Page 268
by Anna Cabot Lowell - 1850 - 376 pages
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A View of Nature, in Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps: With ..., Volume 1

Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - 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...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 31

1819 - 654 pages
...known, projected from given points, in given directions and with given; velocities, and gravitating to one another with forces that are directly as their...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 than...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 11

1808 - 532 pages
...three bodies projected from three points given in position with velocities given in their quantity and direction, and supposing the bodies to gravitate to one another with forces that are as their masses directly and the squares of their distances inversely, to find the lines described...
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Book IV. Of the theory of universal gravitation. Book V. Abridgment of the ...

Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - 1809 - 406 pages
...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....
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The Enquirer: Or, Literary, Mathematical, and Philosophical ..., Volume 2

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...
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Journal of Science and the Arts, Volume 4

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 79

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 582 pages
...instance of the general fact, that any two bodies tend to fall towards each other with a force which is directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances. Generalization of facts, not the ascertainment of causes, is the sole business of science. The regular...
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The Works of John Playfair ...: With a Memoir of the Author ...

John Playfair - 1822 - 554 pages
...three bodies projected from three points given in position with velocities given in their quantity and direction, and supposing the bodies to gravitate to one another with forces that are as their masses directly and the squares of their distances inversely, to find the lines described...
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Works, with a memoir of the author, Volume 4

John Playfait - 1822 - 550 pages
...three bodies projected from three points given in position with velocities given in their quantity and direction, and supposing the bodies to gravitate to one another with forces that are as their masses directly and the squares of their distances inversely, to find the lines described...
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The Circulator of useful knowledge, amusement, literature, science and ...

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...
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