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" That the squares of the periodic times of the planets are in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. "
Proceedings of the Canadian Institute - Page 378
by Canadian Institute - 1884
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General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most ..., Volume 6

John Aikin - 1807 - 684 pages
...exact as to mention the precise day when he found, " that the squares of the periodic times were always in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun." When Kepler saw, according to better observations, that his disposition of the five regular solids...
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The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables: Including ..., Volume 1

Thomas Kerigan - 1828 - 776 pages
...mean Distance of a Planet from the Sun. RULE. squares of their periodical times will be to each other in the same proportion as the cub.es of their mean distances from the central body ; and hence the following rule : — As the square of the earth's periodical or annual...
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Astronomy

sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...following proposition : — " The squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun." Take, for example, the earth and Mars*, whose periods are in the proportion of 3652564 to 6869796,...
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Astronomy

Sir John Frederick William Herschel - 1833 - 444 pages
...following proposition: — " The squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun." Take, for example, the earth and Mars*, whose periods are in the proportion of 3652564 to 6869796,...
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Universal History: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning ..., Volume 6

Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1835 - 364 pages
...he found the great law that regulates the planets, that the squares of their periodical times were in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. The age of Kepler and Galileo was the era of great discoveries in the arts and sciences. The invention...
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The Complete Mathematical and General Navigation Tables: Including Every ...

Thomas Kerigan - 1838 - 804 pages
...body as their common centre of motion, the squares of their periodical times will be to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the central body ; and hence the following rule : — As the square of the earth's periodical or annual...
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Universal History from the Creation of the World to the Beginning ..., Volume 6

Lord Alexander Fraser Tytler Woodhouselee - 1839 - 366 pages
...he found the great law that regulates the planets, that the squares of their periodical times were in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun. The age of Kepler and Galileo was the era of great discoveries in the arts and sciences. The invention...
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Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical, and Vital Agencies in the ..., Volume 1

Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1843 - 490 pages
...iii. Sect. 7.) strated that " the squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun, — a law which has been found equally true of satellites and their primaries, — if we except the...
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

1848 - 572 pages
...out, when he discovered that " the squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun," nor do we — but we need not go on exposing our ignorance) — we believe, we say, that the moon....
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 84

Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1848 - 616 pages
...out, when he discovered that " the squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each other, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mean distances from the sun," nor do we — but we need not go on exposing our ignorance) — we believe, we say, that the moon has...
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