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 | J. Nigro Sansonese - 1994 - 392 pages
...himself was quite grave on the subject. "That one body," he wrote to a fellow Englishman, "may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else ... is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters any competent... | |
 | Harold M. Edwards - 1994 - 532 pages
...)2 *"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- is to me so great... | |
 | Andre Koch Torres Assis - 1994 - 292 pages
...other? As Newton said in his famous letter to Bentley of 1693: "The idea that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else by or through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an... | |
 | Sunny Y Auyang - 1995 - 288 pages
...said: "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, is to me so great... | |
 | Richard J. Weiss - 1996 - 200 pages
...about the question. In looking for the aether Michelson wrote: 'To suppose that one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in physics a complete faculty for thinking,... | |
 | Remigio Russo - 1996 - 340 pages
...about the question. In looking for the aether Michelson wrote: 'To suppose that one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in physics a complete faculty for thinking,... | |
 | Leonard G. Cramp - 1997 - 436 pages
...in it. 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 or through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity... | |
 | Thomas P. Saine - 1997 - 388 pages
...me. 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, is to me so great... | |
 | Helmut Müller-Sievers - 1997 - 246 pages
...Bentley: "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, is to me so great... | |
 | John Archibald Wheeler - 2010 - 388 pages
...Newton could smile in Heaven. No one in the twentieth century believed that one body could act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else. Well, almost nobody. I saw chinks in the armor of field theory, and thought that it was time for a... | |
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