 ... 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. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...  The Artizan - Page 1181868Full view - About this book
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. " In the next part of your Letter you lay down four other positions founded upon the six first. The... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or 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 - 652 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws. But whether this agent be material, or 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 - 580 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or 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
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or 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
...fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or 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
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or 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 - 614 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by :m agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of mj readers." See the third letter to Bentley. necessarily touch much upon the idea of lines of physical... | |
 | 1857 - 664 pages
...Gravity muse be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain lawi ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers. " — Ste Neit'ton't Third Letter to Bcntlty. 294 HEAIVDER'S LECTURES. to force communicated by impact,... | |
 | 1857 - 796 pages
...Gravity mast be caused by an agent, acting constantly acording to certain laws; but whether thisngent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." — See Newton-s Third Letter to Bentley. conserve a given amount of force until that force is transferred... | |
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