 | Benjamin Martin - Science - 1747 - 398 pages
...acting oa the fingle Particle A ; fince then each fingle Particle AGAIN : Since the Attraction is always directly as the Quantity of Matter, and inversely as the Square of the Diftance, it follows, that were the internal Parts of the Earth a perfedt Void, or hollow Concavity,... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1814 - 420 pages
...and on the distance of the body which is acted upon. The force of gravity, therefore, is said to be directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. As these expressions occur frequently in the course of this work, it will be useful to the... | |
 | James Ferguson - Eclipses - 1823 - 406 pages
...distance of the body upon which that force is exerted. The force of gravity, therefore, is said to be directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. As these expression! occur frequently in the course of this work, it will be useful to the... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...tends toward the central body, C, is called a centripetal force ; and in the case of gravitation, it is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. The force by which the revolving body, B, tends to move along the line, i,/,is called a centrifugal... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 652 pages
...the name of law. Thus we speak of the law of gravitation, of reflection, of acceleration, and say, that attraction is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance, — that rays of light are reflected, making the angle of incidence equal to the angle of... | |
 | Benjamin Silliman - Chemistry - 1830 - 546 pages
...GRAVITATION. (a.) It extends to every thing, to all quantities of matter, and lo all distances. (b.) Its force is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. — The quantity of matter, in different cases, being as 1. 2. 3. 4, the attracting force... | |
 | Adam Clarke - God - 1831 - 334 pages
...demonstrated by Sir Isaac Newton, as the necessary result of a still more general law, viz. that gravitation is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. Thus, if the distance of but one planet from the sun be known, and the periodic revolutions... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1831 - 368 pages
...the cause of their weight, or tendency to approach the centre of the earth. The force of gravitation is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. The quantity of matter being given, and the attracting force at a certain distance, say four... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1831 - 366 pages
...the cause of their weight, or tendency to approach the centre of the earth. The force of gravitation is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. The quantity of matter being given, and the attracting force at a certain distance, say four... | |
 | John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1836 - 366 pages
...the cause of their weight, or tendency to approach the centre of the earth. The force of gravitation is directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance. The quantity of matter being given, and the attracting force at a certain distance, say four... | |
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The conception of a force acting directly as the quantity of matter, and inversely as the square of the distance... 
