 that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two, and whose magnitude is directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances...  The Elements of Physics - Page 91by Thomas Webster - 1837 - 490 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1869 - 534 pages
...medium of the Philosophia? Naturalls Principia Mathematica. The law of universal gravitation, that 'every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, with a force directly proportioned to its mass, and inversely to the square of its distance from the particle attracted,'... | |
 | Edward John C. Morton - 1880 - 58 pages
...satisfies the facts. | V. — Of the verification of the Law of Gravitation. 1. The Law of Gravitation. Every particle of matter in the Universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance between them.... | |
 | Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden - 1880 - 542 pages
...NEWTON was able to formulate his great law of universal gravitation in these comprehensive words : ' ' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly as the masses of the two particles, and inversely as the square of the distance which separates... | |
 | John McGovern - 1880 - 762 pages
...Astronomer, who immediately recognized and promulgated the law of Universal Gravitation, as follows : " Every particle of matter in the Universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the quantity of matter contained in each, and decreasing inversely as the squares of... | |
 | George Minchin Minchin - 1880 - 568 pages
...POTENTIAL. SECTION I. Solid Distributions of Matter in General. 241.] Universal Law of Attraction. Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force whose direction is that of the line joining the two particles, and whose magnitude is directly proportional... | |
 | Simon Newcomb, Edward Singleton Holden - 1881 - 544 pages
...NEWTON was able to formulate his great law of universal gravitation in these comprehensive words : " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly as the masses of the two particles, and inversely as the square of the distance which separates... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pages
...all physical laws was finally deduced by Newton, namely, the Law of Gravitation, which affirms that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which is inversely proportional to the squares of the distances between them. Newton demonstrated that... | |
 | John Locke - 1881 - 182 pages
...great discovery as to the law of gravitation, when stated precisely, is that every particle of matter attracts every other particle with a force varying inversely as the square of the distance. SECTION XLIV. topical. See note on the expression ' topical argument ' in Sect. 7. These... | |
 | Edward John Chalmers Morton - 1882 - 370 pages
...unquestionably the most remarkable discovery ever made by the mind of man. It may be stated as follows : — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force varying directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of the distance between them."... | |
 | William Hewitt - 1882 - 254 pages
...to 16 times its former amount. The law of gravitation may now be stated generally as follows : — Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of their masses, and varying inversely as the square of their distance... | |
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