 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1815 - 548 pages
...record, that on the 15th of May, 1618, he found that " the squares of the periodic times are always in the same proportion as the cubes of the mean distances from the sun." When Kepler saw, according to better observations, that his disposition of the five regular solids... | |
 | Biography - 1815 - 544 pages
...record, that on the 15th of May, 1618, he found that " the squares of the periodic times are always in the same proportion as the cubes of the mean distances from the sun." When Kepler saw, according to better observations, that his disposition of the five regular solids... | |
 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1831 - 328 pages
...notion, and upon making the calculations anew, and free from error, he discovered the great law, that the squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to one another as the cubes of their distances from the sun. Enchanted with this unexpected result, he... | |
 | Sir John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1833 - 444 pages
...the real law of their connection. This connection is expressed in the following proposition: — " The squares of the periodic times of any two planets...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... | |
 | sir John Frederick W. Herschel (1st bart.) - 1833 - 500 pages
...the real law of their connection. This connection is expressed in the following proposition : — " The squares of the periodic times of any two planets...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... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...notion, and, upon making the calculations anew, and free from error, he discovered the great law, that the squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to one another as the cubes of their distances from the sun. Enchanted with this unexpected result, he... | |
 | Physics - 1834 - 574 pages
...respect to the motions of the sun and moon. 3. The squares of the mean periodic times of different planets are to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of the axis major of their respective orbits. For instance, if the axis major of Mercury's orbit be supposed... | |
 | 1834 - 578 pages
...respect to the motions of the sun and moon. 3. The square* of the mean periodic times of different planets are to each other in the same proportion as the cubes of tha axis major of their respective orbits. For instance, if the axis major of Mercury's orbit be supposed... | |
 | John Frederick William Herschel - Astronomy - 1835 - 414 pages
...demonstrate the real law of their connexion. This connexion Is expressed in the following proposition : — " The squares of the periodic times of any two planets are to each pther, in the same proportion as the cubes of their mcnn distances from the sun." Take, for example,... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - Heat - 1843 - 490 pages
...signs ; and the ephod of the four elements. (Jewish Antiquities, Book iii. Sect. 7.) strated that " the squares of the periodic times of any two planets...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... | |
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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. 
