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
| James Gracey Murphy - 1873 - 360 sivua
...well-known remark of Newton, in his third letter to Bentley : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act...and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 516 sivua
...inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum,...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... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 524 sivua
...inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum,...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... | |
| John Quarry - 1873 - 664 sivua
...reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity tome. That gravity shMild be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a ratuiim, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be... | |
| François Rothen - 1999 - 898 sivua
...l'entreprise qu'il voulait mener à bien. D (12) Dans une lettre datant de 1692 ou 1693, Newton écrit: « That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anythinq else, by and through which their action and force. may be. conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| Andrew E. Chubykalo, Pope, Viv, Roman Smirnov-Rueda - 1999 - 476 sivua
...operate upon, and affect other Matter without mutual Contact ... That Gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to Matter, so that one Body may act upon another at a Distance, thro' a Vacuum, without the Mediation of any thing else, by and through which their Action and Force... | |
| Banesh Hoffmann - 1999 - 194 sivua
...Newton himself said: That gravity should be utnate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one hody may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| Robert Middlekauff - 1999 - 468 sivua
...celestial system, the proposition that gravity was innate to matter implied that "one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else," a doctrine of such "absurdity" that Newton professed to believe that no man competent in scientific... | |
| Dirk Evers - 2000 - 464 sivua
...reason, why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| Peter Poellner - 2000 - 340 sivua
...ultimate explanatory concept. In a letter to Bentley he wrote: That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act...another at a distance through a vacuum, without the matter in terms of forces, in contradistinction to the traditional conception or an extended substance... | |
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