 | 1824 - 514 pages
...unobserved. He adopts with Encke, the hypothesis of Newton, that the density of this ether diminishes in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance from the sun ; consequently that the planet Mercury would be most likely to be affected by it ; and by a long... | |
 | 1824 - 380 pages
...unobserved. He adopts, with Encke, the hypothesis of Newton, that the density of this ether diminishes in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance from the consequently the planet Mercury would be most likely to be affected by it ; and by a long series of... | |
 | William Newton - 1824 - 374 pages
...served. -He adopts, with Encke, the bypothesis of Newton, that the density of this ether diminishes in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance from the sun, consequently the planet Mercury would be most likely to be affected by it; and by a long series... | |
 | 1824 - 512 pages
...unobserved. He adopts with Encke, the hypothesis of Newton, that the density of this ether diminishes in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance from the sun ; consequently that the planet Mercury would be most likely to be affected by it ; and by a long... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - 1824 - 378 pages
...unobserved. He adopts, with Encke, the hypothesis of Newton, that the density of this ether diminishes in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance from the sun, consequently the planet Mercury would be most likely to be affected by it ; and by a long series... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...sea, is also different from that which is obtained on the supposition that gravity diminishes simply in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance from the centre. Following out an idea suggested by Dr. Thomas Young, in a paper published in the Philosophical... | |
 | Daniel B. Smith - 1842 - 326 pages
...directions, by a luminous body. The quantity of light which falls on any given surface, is therefore in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance from the luminous point. Light is communicated with inconceivable rapidity. It passes over 195,000 miles in... | |
 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1849 - 764 pages
...gravity to what would have been observed just above this imaginary surface, we must evidently increase it in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance from the centre of the earth, without taking account of the attraction of the table-land which lies between... | |
 | John Gummere, Ezra Otis Kendall - 1854 - 484 pages
...force which causes a heavy body to descend to the earth, when left free to move, is called gravity, we the attraction of gravitation. Sir Isaac Newton assuming...ratio of the mass of the body and the inverse ratio oLthe square of the distance, would account, on mechanical principles, for the motions of the latter,... | |
 | 1855 - 424 pages
...and they repel each other, if one approaches and the other recedes from it. Prop. 3. The forces vary in intensity in the inverse ratio of the square of the distance. And the action of a current flowing in a given direction is, in all cases, equal and contrary to that... | |
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... by an ether diffused through space; but if so, how happens it that the planets also have not been retarded ? This the' author attempted to show might be the case, although the phenomenon might pass unobserved. 
