 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,...  Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review - Page 631865Full view - About this book
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 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...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... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pages
...that one 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 a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Newtoni Opera,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...matter, so " that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the " mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and " force...conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an ab" surdity, that Í believe no man who has, in philosophical matters, a " competent faculty of thinking',... | |
 | 1823 - 832 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force...matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. ' (See Horseley's Newton, Vol. IV. page 438.) I shall conclude with the following pertinent... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...that one 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 a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Newtoni Opera,... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pages
...that one 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 a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Neiatoni Opera,... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 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...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it". With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...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...matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. " Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according " to certain laws."... | |
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