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Definition of Law of areas
1. Noun. A law concerning the speed at which planets travel; a line connecting a planet to the sun will sweep out equal areas in equal times. "Kepler's second law means that a planet's orbital speed changes with its distance from the sun"
Generic synonyms: Kepler's Law, Kepler's Law Of Planetary Motion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Areas
Literary usage of Law of areas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to Celestial Mechanics by Forest Ray Moulton (1914)
"The Law of Areas. The first problem will be to derive the general properties of
... The first of these, which is of great importance, is the law of areas, ..."
2. Advertising, Its Principles and Practice by Harry Tipper (1919)
"The Greek Law of Areas The Greeks, more than any other people that have ever
lived, made their life ideal the study of intellectual, impersonal form. ..."
3. Theoretical Mechanics by Percey Franklyn Smith, William Raymond Longley (1910)
"law of areas for central forces. Since a central force acts in the direction of
the radius vector, its component perpendicular to the radius vector is zero. ..."
4. Outlines of Astronomy by John Frederick William Herschel (1869)
"... or the equable description of areas by P about S, since the law of areas
proportional to the times is not a character of the force of gravity only, ..."
5. Astronomy: A Popular Handbook by Harold Jacoby (1913)
"To satisfy the law of areas, it is merely necessary that the attracting force be
... But in addition to this law of areas, which can be deduced as a fact ..."
6. From Nebula to Nebula: Or, The Dynamics of the Heavens, Containing a Broad by George Henry Lepper (1919)
"Now, since, by premiss, the planets are obeying the law of areas, and since they
are doing so because the nebular cloud in which they are immersed is so ..."
7. From Nebula to Nebula: Or, The Dynamics of the Heavens, Containing a Broad by George Henry Lepper (1919)
"Now, since, by premiss, the planets are obeying the law of areas, and since they
are doing so because the nebular cloud in which they are immersed is so ..."
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