 | 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...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain laws." But fuppofing... | |
 | 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...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. Dodjley. ' '.... | |
 | 1858 - 620 lehte
...strongly on this matter, in saying, ' To sup* pose that one body may act upon another at a distance, through ' a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing...competent faculty ' of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind, is enforced... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 lehte
...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 any thing...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | 1823 - 832 lehte
...that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. ' (See Horseley's Newton, Vol. IV. page 438.) I shall conclude with the following pertinent observations... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 lehte
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in 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 whether this agent... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 lehte
...innate, " inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon " another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation " of any thing...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. " Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according " to certain laws." He further says,... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 lehte
...essential to matter, so that one body " may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, with" out the mediation of any thing else, by and through which...competent faculty of thinking, "can ever fall into." I would therefore appeal, in the language of Newton, to any man who has the competent faculty of thinking,... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 590 lehte
...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 any thing...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether that agent... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 578 lehte
...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 any thing...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent... | |
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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,... 
