 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,...  Mechanics' Magazine - Sivu 2541855Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 sivua
...Bentley, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the...and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1907 - 876 sivua
...idea that gravity might be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body might attract another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, was an absurdity into which no man having a competent faculty of thinking in philosophical matters... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 sivua
...abrupt end to enquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | 1862 - 794 sivua
...matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon " another at a distance, through a vacuum " without mediation of anything else by " and through which..." force may be conveyed from one to " another, is to me so great an absurdity, " that I believe no man who has in " philosophical matters a competent... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 sivua
...abrupt end to enquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 1 by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 sivua
...following passage from a letter of Newton to Bentley:— " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed... | |
 | 1862 - 542 sivua
...emphatic words testify: " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon " another at a distance, through a vacuum " without mediation of anything else by " and through which their action and " force may be iconveyed from one... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 sivua
...emphatic words testify : " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon ' another at a distance, through a vacuum ' without mediation of anything else by ' and through which their action and ' force may be conveyed from one... | |
 | 1863 - 718 sivua
...rejects the current view as a palpable " absurdity." He says, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act...by and through which their action and force may be convoyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical... | |
 | 1865 - 648 sivua
...such medium necessary in the case of gravity. He Bays : " That gravity should bo innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act...the mediation of anything else, by and through which thoir action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe... | |
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