 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1822 - 572 pages
...the earth: its ^ean distance from the surface is about 59 terrestrial radii ; and, since the power of attraction is directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance, the attraction of the earth on a particle at its surface will be to that of the moon, •when... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1866 - 688 pages
...definite idea, — although it is less definite, or less complete than the idea that the measure of that attraction is " directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance." This is undoubtedly the highest, or perhaps I ought to say, the ultimate, conception of... | |
 | Carl Friedrich Peschel - 1845 - 176 pages
...repulsion arising from the undulations of an ether within them, and partly by the attraction which is directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. And lastly, these molecules consist of atoms held together by their attractive and repulsive... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1853 - 370 pages
...difference characterizes positive and metaphysical sciences. The one is content with a general fact, that ' attraction is directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance / this being sufficient for all scientific purposes, because enabling us to predict with unerring... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - 1854 - 566 pages
...of the planets as deduced from their observed motions. It acts at all distances upon all matter, and is directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. The weight of a body is therefore proportioned to the number of molecules or particles which... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 482 pages
...difference characterizes positive and metaphysical sciences. The one is content with a general fact, that " attraction is directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance ;" this being sufficient for all scientific purposes, because enabling us to predict with... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1857 - 846 pages
...difference characterizes positive and metaphysical sciences. The one is content with a general fact, that " attraction is directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance ;" this being sufficient for all scientific purposes, because enabling us to predict with... | |
 | Thomas Alfred Davies - 1857 - 430 pages
...Gravitation" is the power of draught between bodies of all kinds and sizes ; and this draught or force is directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance between them. The nature of the force is entirely unknown ; but its effects, as the great... | |
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 382 pages
...ingenious apparatus invented for the purpose, that the law of such gravitation on the surface of the earth is directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance, of the falling body ; and analogy suggests the expectation that the same law prevails within... | |
 | Samuel Brown - 1858 - 380 pages
...ingenious apparatus invented for the purpose, that the law of such gravitation on the surface of the earth is directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance, of the falling body ; and analogy suggests the expectation that the same law prevails within... | |
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Gravitation all we know is, that it is a force of attraction operating between all the particles of matter in the exact measure which was ascertained by Newton, — that is — "directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. 
