The law of universal gravitation is simply this, that every particle of matter in the universe gravitates towards every other particle, or attracts and is attracted by every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. Rudimentary Astronomy - Page 56by Robert Main - 1869 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress. House - 586 pages
...expressed as follows : LAWS OF FORCE. 1. Every particle of matter, at a sensible distance, attracts every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. In electricity and magnetism, repulsion is also exhibited, acting in accordance with... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1874 - 608 pages
...planets on mechanical principles, that every particle of ponderable matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance, astronomers have been ftble, in virtue of that one law of gravitation, to calculate with... | |
| Thomas Webster - 1837 - 512 pages
...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 which the earth would produce... | |
| 1839 - 272 pages
...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 the earth for example, with a certain... | |
| William Davis Gallagher, Otway Curry - 1839 - 438 pages
...difficulties. From the laws of Kepler he had deduced the general principle that all matter attracts matter with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. This principle being admitted, it follows that the orbits of the heavenly bodies cease to be strictly ellipses.... | |
| 1857 - 592 pages
...of the orbit is calculable. He who announced that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance, and directly as the mass, ivas not ignorant of, or indifferent to, the mutual attraction... | |
| United States. Patent Office - 1858 - 728 pages
...expressed as follows '. LAWS OF FORCE. 1. Every particle of matter, at a sensible distance, attracts every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. In electricity and magnetism, repulsion is also exhibited, acting in accordance with... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate - 1858 - 636 pages
...expressed as follows : LAWS OF FORCE. 1. Every particle of matter, at a sensible distance, attracts every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. In electricity and magnetism, repulsion is also exhibited, acting in accordance with... | |
| Thomas Rawson Birks - 1862 - 254 pages
...phenomena of physical change. CHAPTER I. ON MATTER AND ETHER. 1. EVERY particle of matter attracts every other particle, with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance between them. This is the great discovery of Newton, which must form the natural starting... | |
| William James Rolfe, Joseph Anthony Gillet - 1868 - 328 pages
...without making this supposition. SUMMARY. • Every particle of matter in our solar system acts upon every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of their distance from one another. This supposition is necessary to explain the tides (204), the spheroidal... | |
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