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,... Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 49by Dugald Stewart - 1821Full 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...competent 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... | |
| Richard Price - 1777 - 554 pages
...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...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
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and ' ' through which their action and force may be conveyed from ' one to another, is to me so great an absurdity...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... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
| John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pages
...without the mediation of any thing 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, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Newtoni Opera,... | |
| 1823 - 832 pages
...without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...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... | |
| 1824 - 844 pages
...without the mediation of any thing 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, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Neiatoni Opera,... | |
| 1824 - 878 pages
...without the mediation of any thing 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, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Newtoni Opera,... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...without the mediation of any thing 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 had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be... | |
| Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...without the mediation " of any thing else, by and through which their action, and force " may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an " absurdity,...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. " Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according " to certain laws." He further says,... | |
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