 | Lewis Tomlinson - 1840 - 362 Seiten
...weightiness.) That power, in obedience to which every material atom attracts, and is attracted by, every other with a force varying inversely as the squares of the distances at which they are apart. The sensible weight of all terrestrial bodies is the result of the attraction... | |
 | 1857 - 458 Seiten
...all the attracting particles had been concentrated at the centre, these minute spherical particles, as so many gravitating points, will be drawn towards...into spherical masses. Now, as each of the spherical particles entering into the composition of these masses can only maintain its spherical form so long... | |
 | 1862 - 506 Seiten
...towards it, the same as if they had been concentrated at the centre. Hence minute spherical particles, as so many gravitating points, will be drawn towards...of the distances between their respective centres. The author referred at length to the able descriptions of Mr. Rainey,* as to the physical laws regulating... | |
 | 1862 - 498 Seiten
...towards it, the same as if they had been concentrated at the centre. Hence minute spherical particles, as so many gravitating points, will be drawn towards...of the distances between their respective centres. The author referred at length to the able descriptions of Mr. Rainey,* as to the physical laws regulating... | |
 | 1862 - 508 Seiten
...towards it, the same as if they had been concentrated at the centre. Hence minute spherical particles, as so many gravitating points, will be drawn towards...of the distances between their respective centres. The author referred at length to the able descriptions of Mr. Rainey,* as to the physical laws regulating... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1862 - 684 Seiten
...towards it, the same as if they had been concentrated at the centre. Hence minute spherical particles, as so many gravitating points, will be drawn towards...of the distances between their respective centres. The author referred at length to the able descriptions of Mr Rainey,* as to the physical laws regulating... | |
 | John Hughes Bennett - 1870 - 466 Seiten
...towards it, the same as if they had been concentrated at the centre. Hence minute spherical particles, as so many gravitating points, will be drawn towards...of the distances between their respective centres. Molecules, therefore, occurring in a fluid medium of equal density, or nearly so, will, by their mutual... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 522 Seiten
...^consisting of solid atoms, never absolutely contiguous to each other, but always attracting or repelling each other with a force varying inversely as the squares of the distances between the atoms. What then is the constitution of these hypothetical atoms-? Are they divisible, or indivisible... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 496 Seiten
...as_'consisting of solid atoms, never absolutely contiguous to each other, but always attracting or repelling each other with a force varying inversely as the squares of the distances between the atoms. What then is the constitution of these hypothetical atoms ? Are they divisible, or indivisible... | |
 | John Fiske - 1875 - 496 Seiten
...consisting of solid atoms, never absolutely contiguous to each other, but always attracting or repelling each other with a force varying inversely as the squares of the distances between the atoms. What then is the constitution of these hypothetical atoms ? Are they divisible, or indivisible... | |
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Newton that in a sphere the total attraction resulting from the particular attraction of all its component parts is, as regards any body drawn towards it, the same as if they had been concentrated at the centre. Hence minute spherical particles, as so... 
