 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,...  Organic Evolution Considered - Page 26by Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 474 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1756 - 704 pages
...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...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according ยป' to certain laws." But fuppofing gravity... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1756 - 50 pages
...one one to another, is to me fo great an Abfurdity, that I believe no Man who has in philofophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an Agent acting conftantly according to certain Laws ; but whether this Agent be... | |
 | 1776 - 568 pages
...frcm one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man. who has, in philofophic.nl matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an agent aeling "* conftantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 554 pages
...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 pages
...their action 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...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...their ac" tion 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,...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 manner one... | |
 | 1823 - 832 pages
...their action 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,...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... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...their action, 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,...Agent acting constantly according " to certain laws." He further says, " In my former letter, I represented, that the " diurnal rotations of the planets... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...their action 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,...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 manner one... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 pages
...their action 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,...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,... | |
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