On the Origin of the Laws of NatureSociety for promoting Christian knowledge, 1879 - 107 pages |
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Page 29 - 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.
Page 29 - ... if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one 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 upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of...
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Page 42 - The change of motion is proportional to the motive force impressed ; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
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