 | John Henry Pepper - Science - 1860 - 460 pages
...and observing the weight, he found that it did not hang perpendicularly, like an ordinary plumbline, but was attracted, or impelled, to the sides of the...indicated by Newton as the attraction of gravitation. This truly wonderful power of attraction pervades all masses; and being, as before stated, proportional... | |
 | Science - 1863 - 530 pages
...producing a ring or belt of matter thirteen miles high at the equator. Now as, according to the law of gravitation, every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter, wherever situate, with a force directly proportioned to their mass, and varying inversely as the square... | |
 | Science - 1863 - 538 pages
...producing a ring or belt of matter thirteen miles high at the equator. Now as, according to the law of gravitation, every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle of matter, wherever situate, with a force directly proportioned to their mass, and varying inversely as the square... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 852 pages
...generalisation to be afterwards mentioned, Newton is understood to have at first rested his law of universal gravitation : ' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square... | |
 | 1867 - 864 pages
...the solar system it would be well nigh beyond the skill of the geometer. According to Newton's law of gravitation, every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle proportionately to its mass ; but the fixed stars are so remote that, to our measuremnt, they influence... | |
 | Charles Joyce White - Astronomy - 1872 - 300 pages
...proportional to the squares of their distances from the third body. This, then, is Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation. Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle, •with a force directly proportional to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely proportional... | |
 | W. G. Willson - Dynamics - 1874 - 294 pages
...arrived at. The motion of a projectile in air is too difficult a problem to be discussed here. 84. LAW OF GRAVITATION. — Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force, in the direction of the line joining the two, whose magnitude is directly proportional... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1874 - 868 pages
...tion to be afterwards mentioned, Newton is understood to have at first rested his law of universal gravitation : ' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting in 1576, used to assemble ; and here... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1874 - 870 pages
...generalisation to be afterwards mentioned, Newton is understood to have at first rested his law of universal gravitation : ' Every particle of matter in the universe attracts every other particle with a force directly proportioned to the mass of the attracting particle, and inversely to the square... | |
 | Edward John C. Morton - 1880 - 58 pages
...and finds it 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... | |
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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. 
