| Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 426 pages
...something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. * * * That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and... | |
| Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 pages
...I do not pretend to know." Many of them will not refuse assent even to his much stronger statement: "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... | |
| Thomas Harper - 1884 - 444 pages
...something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, 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... | |
| Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 pages
...do not pretend to know." Many of them will not refuse assent even to his much stronger statement : " 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... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1883 - 552 pages
...of incorporeal entities as he contemplated the law of gravitation. In a letter to Bentley he says: " That gravity should be innate, 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... | |
| John Quarry - 1880 - 216 pages
...and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to 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... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1881 - 412 pages
...These are bold assertions, and in striking contrast with the cautious words of Newton, who wrote : " 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... | |
| 1881 - 460 pages
...In the first place, Newton-s words, contained in the Third Letter to Bentloy, are as follows :—" That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another body at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else by... | |
| Ernst Rethwisch - 1882 - 100 pages
...it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. Und weiter: 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 eise, by and... | |
| 1883 - 572 pages
...known facts of gravity. Newton himself, in direct contrast with what is considered as his theory, says 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 medium of anything else, by and through... | |
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