 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,...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 1961868Full view - About this book
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 pages
...at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. " Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity alone, you confirm by... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...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,...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." * " The immense void betwixt the celestial bodies has with great impropriety been determined an absolute... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 662 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." It is evident, then, that he considered gravity to be an effect. It is also evident, that in the second... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 578 pages
...at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity alone, you confirm by three... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ho man, who has in philosophical matters a competent...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity alone, you confirm by three... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1904 - 724 pages
...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." If the action of the sun on the earth were a pulling or attracting action, then, unless it were perfectly... | |
 | 1882 - 662 pages
...Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting according to certain laws ; but whether this agent...immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." ' Although he thus left it to the consideration of his readers, it is evident that Newton's own opinion... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1854 - 492 pages
...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,...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." Finally, reference was made to Sabine's remarkable observation, sustained as it has been by Wolf, Gautier,... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 632 pages
...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,...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." 1 Philosophical Magazine,4th Series, 1862, vol. iii. p. 403 (3246.). 2 Newton's Works, Horsley's edition,... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 620 pages
...believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." See the third letter to Bentley. necessarily touch much upon the idea of lines of physical force ;... | |
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