Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian InstitutionSmithsonian Institution, 1894 |
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Page 110 - 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, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.
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