 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,...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 48by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 652 pages
...body may act upon another, at a distance, through a vacuum, 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 it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 pages
...one body " may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, with" out the mediation of any thing else, by and through which " their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, "can ever fall into." I would therefore appeal, in the language of Newton, to any man who has the competent faculty of thinking,... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 232 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether that agent... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 580 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...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... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ho man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 474 pages
...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 896 pages
...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1843 - 648 pages
...inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.£+ This passage... | |
 | 1882 - 662 pages
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can * Published, like the Astronomy, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. fall into it. Gravity... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can , v. r fall... | |
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