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" The law of gravitation, which states that the attractive force between two bodies is directly proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them, can be put in simple mathematical form, but... "
Scientific Development and Misconceptions Through the Ages: A Reference Guide
by Robert E. Krebs - 1999 - 286 pages
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A Treatise on Statics with Applications to Physics, Volume 2

George Minchin Minchin - 1886 - 560 pages
...body of this system attracts every other body of the system with a force which in any position of the two bodies is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the bodies, and which in different positions is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between...
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A Treatise on Statics: With Applications to Physics, Volume 2

George Minchin Minchin - 1889 - 556 pages
...body of this system attracts every other body of the system with a force which in any position of the two bodies is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the bodies, and which in different positions is inversely proportional to the square of the distance between...
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Interactions: Some Contacts Between the Natural Sciences and the Social Sciences

I. Bernard Cohen - 1994 - 228 pages
...weight with latitude; and much else. The Newtonian law states that the force of gravity between any two bodies is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the bodies and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. In the middle of the...
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The World of Numbers

1997 - 216 pages
...that made it possible to determine the mass of the earth. According to Newton's Law the attraction between two bodies is directly proportional to the product of the masses of the two bodies. If we double one of the masses, we double the attraction; and that is what we should expect. If we...
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