"Inversely" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... words, must be an epitome or miniature image, in all its perfection, of the Universe at large; as the image formed upon the retina of the eye, though infinitely small in the comparison, is an exact epitome or image, inversely, of the external ...
— Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various
... three sentences in the book which ought to be imprinted in the reader's mind, and we present them inversely: ...
— Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold • Mabel Collins
... in mind the fact that the inductive effects vary inversely as the square of the distance between the two spirals, when parallel to each other; and that the induced current in B is proportional to the number of reversals of the battery current passing through spiral A, and also to the strength of the current so passing. ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 417 • Various
... of any star to be inversely proportional to the square of its distance, it leads to a scale of distance different from that adopted by HERSCHEL, so that a sixth-magnitude star on the common scale would be about of the eighth order of distance ...
— Sir William Herschel: His Life and Works • Edward Singleton Holden
... from a light the illumination which it receives diminishes rapidly, for the strength of the illumination is inversely proportional to the square of distance of the object from the light. Our ancestors with a candle at a distance of one foot from a book were as well off as we are with an incandescent light ...
— General Science • Bertha M. Clark
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