 | Archibald Hastie DICK - 1863 - 264 pages
...by the aid of the law of gravitation, compare their relative attraction on the centre of the earth. Attraction is directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. The ratio, therefore, of the sun's attraction to that of the 30,000,000 , , , 30,000,000... | |
 | George Douglas Campbell Duke of Argyll - 1867 - 490 pages
...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." This is the Law. But it affords no sort of explanation of itself. What is the cause of this... | |
 | Selim Hobart Peabody - 1869 - 388 pages
...— Combining the two preceding results, we have the general law : — The attraction of gravitation is directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance. MM' G : G : : ^ : ^. Newton proved that the sum of the attractions of the particles which... | |
 | University of the State of New York - 1869 - 218 pages
...Of the latter, are the laws generalized from the uniform phenomena of nature; the force of gravity is directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. The former are judgments necessarily formed and adhered to when we have acquired clear conceptions... | |
 | 1870 - 614 pages
...changes of temperature alone, which determines the relative amount of cohesive force in such bodies which is directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distances of atoms. Whatever muscular contraction may be, it is magnetic molecular disturbance no doubt,... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1871 - 372 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... | |
 | John William Nystrom - 1875 - 362 pages
...Roberval and Hook, and finally established by Sir Isaac Newton. It is expressed as follows: The force of attraction is directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance. This expression will hold good when the mass of either one of the' attracting bodice is taken... | |
 | Edmund Beckett Baron Grimthorpe - 1876 - 470 pages
...comparative attractions and the force of gravity at their surfaces. For by the law of gravitation, that is directly as the mass and inversely as the square of the distance from the centre. Therefore, since the sun's radius is 108-32 times the earth's, gravity on... | |
 | 1877 - 342 pages
...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." This is the law. But it affords no sort of explanation of itself. What is the cause of this... | |
 | Joseph Cook - 1881 - 230 pages
...gravitation is the expression of a given force. The 20 law according to which that force manifests itself is "directly as the mass, and inversely as the square of the distance." You cannot violate that law ; but by the application of resisting forces [you can arrest... | |
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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. 
