 | Benjamin Martin - 1747 - 398 pages
...acting oa the fingle Particle A ; fince then each fingle Particle AGAIN : Since the Attraction is always directly as the Quantity of Matter, and inversely as the Square of the Diftance, it follows, that were the internal Parts of the Earth a perfedt Void, or hollow Concavity,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1814 - 420 pages
...and on the distance of the body which is acted upon. The force of gravity, therefore, is said to be directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. As these expressions occur frequently in the course of this work, it will be useful to the readerto make... | |
 | James Gregory - 1819 - 454 pages
...Newton's Principia, and inform us, that this great and immortal philosopher proved that attraction is directly, as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance—Then by the help of a diagram and some algebraic formulae of his own invention, he might... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 406 pages
...distance of the body upon which that force is exerted. The force of gravity, therefore, is said to be directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. As these expression! occur frequently in the course of this work, it will be useful to the reader to make... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...tends toward the central body, C, is called a centripetal force ; and in the case of gravitation, it is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. The force by which the revolving body, B, tends to move along the line, i,/,is called a centrifugal... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1829 - 666 pages
...heavenly bodies, it discovers a force operating throughout, which is called attraction, the amount of which is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the squares of the distances. By the application of this general principle, it descends to those more refined... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford, Henry Vethake - 1879 - 634 pages
...heavenly bodies, it discovers a force operating throughout, which is called attraction, the amount of which is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the squares of the distances. By the application of this general principle, it descends to those more refined... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - 1830 - 546 pages
...GRAVITATION. (a.) It extends to every thing, to all quantities of matter, and lo all distances. (b.) Its force is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. — The quantity of matter, in different cases, being as 1. 2. 3. 4, the attracting force... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1831 - 366 pages
...the cause of their weight, or tendency to approach the centre of the earth. The force of gravitation is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. The quantity of matter being given, and the attracting force at a certain distance, say four... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - 1831 - 368 pages
...the cause of their weight, or tendency to approach the centre of the earth. The force of gravitation is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. The quantity of matter being given, and the attracting force at a certain distance, say four... | |
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GRAVITATION, is that influence by which every body in the universe, whether great or small, tends towards every other, with a force which is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. 
