 | 1885 - 896 pages
...science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances apart, it simply uses the phrase as a convenient metaphor by which to describe the manner in which... | |
 | 1895 - 1140 pages
...about it. Suppose it had been explained to him that, according to Newton, bodies attract one another directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances, and that the phenomena presented by the Solar System had been accounted for by him as conforming to... | |
 | Mi Gyung Kim - 2008 - 634 pages
...from gravitation: It has been shewn by Newton, that the great bodies of the universe exert this power 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,... | |
 | American Medical Association - 1870 - 704 pages
...because the law carried within itself the conditions of variation — bodies tend towards each other directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances. Thus, in astronomy as well as in mechanics, the first and second movements of science became united... | |
 | 1877 - 1060 pages
...developed by Newton, bears sway in all those distant worlds. In them bodies attract each other with forces directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances. There the laws of the emission, absorption, and transmission of light are the same as they are with... | |
 | 1877 - 180 pages
...suspected, from phenomena upon our Earth, that the force which holds the planets in their orbits varied directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances from the Sun. His reasoning was objected to or carelessly thrown aside, until he almost compelled belief... | |
 | Cargill Gilston Knott - 420 pages
...of transformations, might similarly have remarked that the formula — ' bodies attract one another directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances,' was at best but a blank form for solar systems and sidereal clusters." We now see why Mr Spencer calls... | |
 | 1895 - 1140 pages
...about it. Suppose it had been explained to him that, according to Newton, bodies attract one another directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances, and that the phenomena presented by the Solar System had been accounted for by him as conforming to... | |
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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... 
