 ... 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...  Nature - Page 230edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1894 - 552 pages
...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." Thus Newton, in giving out his great, law, did not abandon the idea that matter cannot act where... | |
 | 1857 - 796 pages
...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 mast be caused by an agent, acting constantly acording to certain laws; but whether thisngent... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1857 - 644 pages
...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 according to certain laws; but whether this... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...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 according to certain laws; but whether this... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pages
...action and i'orce 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." The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind, is enforced... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pages
...action 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 of thinking, can ever fall into it." (Third letter to Bentley, page 26.) It was truly observed by Bacon, that " the doctrines of great... | |
 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 pages
...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 according to certain laws, but whether this... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 pages
...vaunted dictum of " common-sense :" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose "absurdity is so great that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it!"* And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition — that matter... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pages
...and " force may be iconveyed 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." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest star whose... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...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 according to certain laws; but whether this... | |
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