 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,...  Self Culture - Page 6801895Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 488 pages
...inherent in matter, Newton earnestly repelled, declaring that it was inconceivable, and that the motions " must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws." — So Franklin showed that a thunder-cloud and the charged conductor of an electrical machine manifested... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - 426 pages
...and inherent in it, and this is the reason why I desire that you would not ascribe it to me. It is so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent way of thinking, can ever fall into it." * So even those may dis* On tins subject, Stewart remarks... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has,...philosophical 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has,...philosophical 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... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 512 pages
...thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fell into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws."... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 614 pages
...anything else, by and through which their 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 matten a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by :m agent acting... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1894 - 552 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has...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... | |
 | 1857 - 796 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has...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;... | |
 | 1857 - 696 pages
...absurdity that I believe no man who hos in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking kan ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but wether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration ofmy readers." Weiter... | |
 | 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,... | |
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