 That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...  Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review - Page 4581863Full view - About this book
 | 1756 - 704 lehte
...aftion and force may be conveyed from one to another, il to me, (fays Sir Ifnac) fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain laws."... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 554 lehte
...which their adion and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who " has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." See tbeThird of the Four Letters from Sir Ifaac Ntwtsn to Dr. Bently, printed for Mr.... | |
 | 1858 - 620 lehte
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and ' ' through which their action and force may be conveyed from ' one to another, is to me so great an absurdity...matters a competent faculty ' of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 lehte
...without the me" diation of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is " to me so great an absurdity,...matters, a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 lehte
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 458 lehte
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, to me, so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Newtoni Opera,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 lehte
...their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an ab" surdity, that Í believe no man who has, in philosophical matters, a " competent faculty of thinking', can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what... | |
 | 1823 - 832 lehte
...without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. ' (See Horseley's Newton, Vol. IV. page 438.) I shall conclude with the following pertinent... | |
 | 1824 - 844 lehte
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, to me, so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Neiatoni Opera,... | |
 | 1824 - 878 lehte
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, to me, so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Newtoni Opera,... | |
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