 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 500
...instance, and provisionally, his law of universal gravitation, which may be thus abstractly stated : — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them." In this abstract and general form,... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - عدد الصفحات: 444
...and provisidwally, his law of universal gravitation, which may be tliijis abstractly stated : — " Every particle of matter in the' universe attracts...directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them." In this abstract and general form,... | |
 | Thomas Webster - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 512
...surface. For this purpose, he reasoned on his law of 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... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 566
...matter that the earth consists of. Gravity is a real power, of whose agency we have daily experience. " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them." Whatever attempts may have been... | |
 | 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 272
...results from gravitation. The great Newton discovered and 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... | |
 | T H. Howe - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 458
...that case, the general law applies in its strict wording." — Sir John Herschefs Astronomy p. 237. " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...particle with a force directly proportioned to the mas of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them." — Ibid,... | |
 | sir Edward Johnson - 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 586
...planetary motions, the velocities of falling bodies, &c., would have frequent occasion to mention the fact that " every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional, &c. &c." But this would be extremely troublesome, and even difficult to introduce intelligibly.... | |
 | 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 864
...constitution; this being, of course, only a particular case of Newton's law of gravitation, which tells us that every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force which depends on their masses and on the distances which separate them; the attraction being proportionately... | |
 | 1846 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...gravitation and attraction, by which all bodies, liquid or solid, are governed. Newton's words are — " Every particle of matter in the universe attracts...particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass (and density) of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - 1849 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...and provisionally, his law of universal gravitation, which may be thus abstractly stated:—"Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every...directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square of the distance between them." In this abstract and general form,... | |
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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... 
