 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 631865Full view - About this book
 | 1756 - 704 pages
...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 - 1772 - 482 pages
...may aft upon another f at a diftance through a vacuum, without the '' mediation of any thing elfe, by and through which •' their action and force may be conveyed from one f* io another, is to me fo great an abfurdity that I f believe no man who h"s in phijofophical matters... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 500 pages
...body may afl upon another at a diftancf " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and <« force may be conveyed from one to another, is to 'c me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who *« has in philofophical matters a competent... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 554 pages
...diftance " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through 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... | |
 | 1858 - 620 pages
...one body 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...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 - 1813 - 520 pages
...fo that one body may act on another, " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to *' me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man " who has, in philofophical matters, a competent *' faculty... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...another, through a vacuum, 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...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... | |
 | 1856 - 974 pages
...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, is, he says, to him a great absurdity. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 pages
...matter, so that one body may act on ano" ther, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...matter, so that one body may act on ano'* ther, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed u from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe '• no man who has, in philosophical... | |
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