 | 1857 - 796 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a cacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity mast be caused by an agent, acting constantly acording to certain laws; but whether thisngent be material... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1857 - 644 pages
...by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, ú to me so'preat an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters n competent faculty of thinking, cui ever fill into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting... | |
 | 1857 - 664 pages
...else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from out to another, U to me »o great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical mutters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an ri^ent,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pages
...through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and i'orce may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great...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 - 650 pages
...to cohere, without the intervention of a third." through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...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 and... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is Jo me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who...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 and... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 pages
...that one body may act upon ' another at a distance, through a vacuum ' without mediation of anything else by ' and through which their action and ' force...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 beams... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 pages
...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...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity thus impressed on Newton's mind, is enforced upon us... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 pages
...body may act upon another at a distance, ; through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 1 by and through which their action and force may be...no man who has in philosophical matters a competent i- faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction ii which his conception of gravity thus... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pages
...without mediation of anything else by " and through which their action and " force may be iconveyed from one to " another, is to me so great an absurdity,...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 beams... | |
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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,... 
