This section is from the book "The Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia", by Luke Hebert. Also available from Amazon: Engineer's And Mechanic's Encyclopaedia.
Inverse Proportion, or Inverse Ratio, in Philosophy, is that in which more requires less, or less requires more. Thus in the case of light and heat flowing from a luminous body, the light and heat are less at a greater dis-ance and greater at a less distance.
 
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