 ... 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
 | William Barlow (of Muswell Hill.) - 1885 - 422 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." capillary action : — Magnetic and electrical attraction and repulsion, which, as far as their... | |
 | Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - 604 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." Nevertheless, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to be one of the... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 pages
...action and force can te 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 Hume Kedzie - 1886 - 332 pages
...which their action 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 I. Swander - 1886 - 372 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that 1 believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The greatest of philosophical reasoners, though inspired with A. He failed to discover and recognize... | |
 | Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh - 1886 - 254 pages
...gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter 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." This disposes of the theory of universal gravitation, which scholastics attribute to him. It certainly... | |
 | 1888 - 928 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from 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 ever fall into tt?'—MUr to Entity. Ала we also know that he sought for the mechanism of gravitation in the properties... | |
 | George Stearns - 1888 - 348 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... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 732 pages
...which their action 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... | |
 | Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1889 - 604 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." And finally, July 16, 1717, he prefaces his treatise on optics with this advertisement : " To... | |
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