 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,...  Faraday as a Discoverer - Page 67by John Tyndall - 1868 - 171 pagesFull 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...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain laws." But fuppofing gravity... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1756 - 50 pages
...one one to another, is to me fo great an Abfurdity, that I believe no Man who has in philofophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an Agent acting conftantly according to certain Laws ; but whether this Agent be... | |
 | 1776 - 568 pages
...frcm one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man. who has, in philofophic.nl matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an agent aeling "* conftantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 500 pages
...diftancf " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and <« force may be conveyed from one to another, is to 'c me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who *« has in philofophical matters a competent... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 554 pages
...diftance " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through 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 a competent faculty... | |
 | 1858 - 620 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 pages
...another, " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man ** who has, in philofophical matters, a competent " faculty... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...another, through a vacuum, without the me" diation of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed u from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 464 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,...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Nervtoni Opera,... | |
| |
