 To say of the stone which falls to earth that it obeys an attraction which varies directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance, is not to understand the stone's fall.  The Study of Sociology - Page 42by Herbert Spencer - 1874 - 423 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ezra Otis Kendall - Astronomy - 1845 - 408 pages
...never was a law of such vast importance announced in so few words. The simple principle, that gravity varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance, enables us to infer it priori all of Kepler's laws. If one of several bodies of a system... | |
 | James M'Intire - Astronomy - 1850 - 352 pages
...theory of gravitation as stated in the last and present articles, namely, that the force of attraction varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance, was first promulgated by Sir Isaac Newton ; and hence it is sometimes called, The Newtonian... | |
 | Thomas Tate - Mechanical engineering - 1853 - 396 pages
...distance one-ninth, and so on. These two!laws are expressed by saying, — that the force of gravitation varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. Bodies are attracted by the earth as if the whole of its mass were collected in its centre... | |
 | Chemistry - 1855 - 802 pages
...but only tells us that all masses or portions of matter tend towards each other with a force which varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. This law enables us to measure and calculate the force- of gravitation, but throws no gleam... | |
 | Thomas Turner Tate - Physics - 1855 - 442 pages
...at treble oneninth, and so on. These two laws are expressed by saying, that the force of gravitation varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. Bodies are attracted by the earth as if the whole of its mass were collected in its centre... | |
 | James Cornwell - 1855 - 380 pages
...hour ; how far and how long must the first travel before he is overtaken by the second? 17. Gravity varies directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. Compare the amount of the earth's attraction on two bodies, the one having a mass 35 at a... | |
 | Liverpool ladies' coll - 1857 - 218 pages
...lying within the scope of the law that every particle of matter attracts every other with a force which varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. It is the object of Philosophy to ascend from a knowledge of facts to a knowledge of laws;... | |
 | Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel - Astronomy - 1860 - 396 pages
...planets exterior to the orbit of Mercury exert an amount of power on this nearest planet to the sun which varies directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance of the disturbing body. Let us suppose the earth and Venus to be in conjunction with Mercury,... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Engineering - 1866 - 378 pages
...Newton) the mechanism by which these masses are regulated in their orbits, by an attracting force which varies directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. These wonderful achievements of the Great Author of Nature teach us lessons of humility as... | |
 | Sir William Fairbairn - Cables, Submarine - 1866 - 370 pages
...Newton) the mechanism by which these masses are regulated in their orbits, by an attracting force which varies directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. These wonderful achievements of the Great Author of Nature teach us lessons of humility as... | |
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