...instance you say that ponderable matter everywhere and always attracts ponderable matter with a force varying directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance of the attracting matter — that you call the law of gravitation. What do we call the law...

...certain proportions will form water. It is a law of astronomy, that matter attracts matter with a force varying directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. The first of these is a truth, capable of demonstration. Whoever comprehends the terms in...

...discovered is that which regulates the mutual attraction of two or more masses of matter with a force varying directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance between them ; and the application of this law by Newton to the explanation of the movements...

...planets can all be exactly accounted for by supposing that each acts upon every other with a force varying directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance of these bodies. Hence we conclude that gravity acts among all the bodies of the solar system....

...the law of gravitation — that mysterious principle by which all matter attracts and is attracted directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance — and observe with how absolute and immutable a power it reigns over the universe. Brooding over the old...

...that the author has proved what he enunciates, namely, that the attraction upon any particle must vary directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance ; and that the repulsion must vary directly as the mass and inversely as the cube of the distance. Suppose...

...ii. The general rule or natural law in astronomy is expressed thus: " Two bodies attract each other directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance." And that of storms tuus : " They move in circles." * In support of this assertion many statistics might...

...he mean when he says : " Every portion of matter in the universe attracts every other with a force varying directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the •distance " ? Such is the law of gravitation as stated by the discoverer of it ; and the terms in...

...What, after all, is gravitation ? Does some one say, " It is the law«of attraction between bodies, varying directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance ? " But what occasions, causes, the invariable sequence, and thus the law itself? Evidently,...

...their mw and inversely ax the cube of their distancee. When on* power is considered only, the rule is, directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. and below the mean level of an ordinary tide. If the tides of Morecambe Bay, then, bore the same proportion...