 | John Wakefield Francis - 1828 - Страниц: 634
...gravity to which I have before referred as an example. It is expressed in the following words : " that bodies attract each other directly as their masses and inversely as the square of their distances." Now if it can be proved that there is any one body in the universe, with regard to which this rule... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1831 - Страниц: 710
...produce the ebb and flow of the sea. 343. Having thus proved from Kepler's laws, that the celestial bodies attract each other directly as their masses, and inversely as the square of the distance, La Place inverts the problem, and assuming the law of gravitation to be that of nature,... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - Страниц: 508
...not connected as cause and effect. When the mechanical law is enounced, that bodies gravitate to each directly as their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances, it is meant that, while the magnitude of a body is a cause promotive of mutual attraction, distance... | |
 | ZACHARY EDDY - 1871 - Страниц: 776
...under which they occur, at last leads to the discovery of the fixed law for this variation; namely, bodies attract each other directly as their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances;—a proposition, pronounced by high authority, " the most important and the most general... | |
 | Archibald Hastie Dick - 1876 - Страниц: 138
...increases. This truth is called the Law of Gravitation, and is generally expressed by the statement that all bodies attract each other directly as their masses and inversely as the squares of their distances. The sun and the moon, therefore, attract the earth and the waters on the... | |
 | Kansas Academy of Science - 1898 - Страниц: 246
...analogy that the universe of matter is all subject to the law that celestial bodies everywhere act upon each other directly as their masses and inversely as the square of their distances. It is true that the motion of a body in space may be so great as to effectually prevent the operation... | |
 | William Galbraith Miller - 1884 - Страниц: 496
...transferred from the assumed cause to the generalisation. We then say, for example, that particles attract each other directly as their masses, and inversely as the square of their distance from each other, and stop here. We do not add that gravity or anything else causes this. 2... | |
 | Robert Galloway - 1888 - Страниц: 378
...greatest attractive force; thus, according to the law of Newton, the attractive force of bodies is to each other directly as their masses, and inversely as the square of their distances ; therefore, if the mass of one body be two, three, four, or five times greater than that of another,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1899 - Страниц: 526
...science. When astronomy speaks of two planets as attracting each other with a " force " which varies directly as their masses and inversely as the square of their distances apart, it simply uses the phrase as a convenient metaphor by which to describe the manner in which... | |
 | Franklin Henry Giddings - 1901 - Страниц: 330
...variations and some other class of variations. Thus, the law of gravitation is the affirmation that bodies attract each other directly as their masses, and inversely as the squares of their distances; that is, that as masses vary gravitation increases or decreases, the progression... | |
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as if the bodies attracted each other directly as their masses and inversely as the square of their distance apart. As to knowing why this is so, I cannot tell. 
