 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...should, " without the mediation of something else which is not " material, operate upon, and aflect other matter, without " mutual contact ; as it must...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And " this is one reason why I desired that you would not as. " cribe innate gravity to me. . That... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...matter should, without " the mediation of something else which is not material, operate " upon, and affect other matter, without mutual contact ; as it...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inhe" rent in it. And this is one reason why I desired that you would not u ascribe innate gravity... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 464 pages
...matter should, without the mediation of something else, •which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact,- as it...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...should, without the mediation of " something else which is not material, operate upon, and effüct other " matter, without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the " sense of Epirurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one " reason why I desired that you would not... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why 1 desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pages
...brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desire you would not ascribe inherent gravity to me. That gravity should... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...matter should, without " the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate " upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it...sense of Epicurus, be essential and " inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you not to " ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...brute matter should, without the mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter, without mutual contact ; as it...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity... | |
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It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential... 
