 | Pierre Simon marquis de Laplace - 1809 - 406 pages
...analogy, to all the celestial bodies, and established as a principle, that all particles of matter attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. Arrived at this principle, Newton saw that the great phenomena of the system of the... | |
 | Edward Polehampton - 1815 - 592 pages
...analogy, to all the celestial bodies, and established as a principle, thai all particles of. matter attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. Arrived at this principle, Newton saw that the great phenomena of the system of the... | |
 | 1816 - 420 pages
...this proposition to all bodies whatever, and established the principle ' that all particles of matter attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distances.' Having arrived at this principle, Sir Isaac Newton saw that the great phenomena of... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1826 - 536 pages
...the minutest corpuscles, and the hugest aggregations of matter, — that all the particles of matter attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance, he at once beheld the cause of those perturbations of motion to which the heavenly... | |
 | 1875 - 650 pages
...continuity of the observed action of a cause which is unknown to scientific inquiry. To say that all bodies attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance, is no explanation of the reason why it is so, or why they do not attract in other ratios.... | |
 | Carroll Dunham - 1879 - 1130 pages
...-•« mechanical relations of bodies. Fourth: Observe that this law, which is a bare statement that bodies attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distances, is not based upon any theory of the nature of attraction — how it is that one body... | |
 | 1891 - 740 pages
...absolute, and must remain true whether the intelligence to know it exists or not. But the law that material bodies attract each other directly as their mass and inversely as the square of their distance from each other is an induction, and a different law is entirely conceivable. It seems... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1897 - 646 pages
...which they hold sway. For example, the law of gravitation affirms that, without exception, all physical bodies attract each other, directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. But this law, or abstract formula, explains only the movement of bodies near the earth,... | |
 | George Trumbull Ladd - 1897 - 642 pages
...which they hold sway. For example, the law of gravitation affirms that, without exception, all physical bodies attract each other, directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. But this law, or abstract formula, explains only the movement of bodies near the earth,... | |
 | Hamilton Scientific Association - 1898 - 682 pages
...of their distance from the sun. Add to these the discovery of Newton, which confirms them, that all bodies attract each other directly as their mass and inversely as the squares of their distance from each other, and we have the axioms on which the whole structure of modern... | |
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He extended this proposition afterwards by analogy, to all the celestial bodies, and established as a principle, that all particles of matter attract each other directly as their mass, and inversely as the square of their distance. 
