 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
 | John Stuart Mill - 1858 - 666 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pages
...through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and i'orce may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great...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... | |
 | Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 pages
...that a body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by, and through which, their action and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who, in philosophical matters, has acbmpetent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." (See Sir Isaac... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 658 pages
...impossible for two things alone to cohere, without the intervention of a third." through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." (Third letter to Bentley, page 26.) It was truly observed by Bacon, that "the doctrines of great and... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pages
...impossible for two things alone to cohere, without the intervention of a third." through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through...and force may be conveyed from one to another, is Jo me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 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...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 pages
...matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity thus impressed on Newton's mind, is enforced upon us... | |
 | 1862 - 794 pages
...matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon " another at a distance, through a vacuum " without mediation of anything else by " and through which...competent " faculty of thinking, can ever fall into " it." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest star whose beams... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 pages
...body may act upon another at a distance, ; through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 1 by and through which their action and force may be...no man who has in philosophical matters a competent i- faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction ii which his conception of gravity thus... | |
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