 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
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1857 - 644 pages
...by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, รบ 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pages
...thing else, by and through which their action and i'orce 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." The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's... | |
 | 1858 - 448 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 must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 672 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 has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." (Third letter to Bentley, page 26.) It was truly observed by Bacon, that " the... | |
 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 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 must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws,... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pages
...else by " and through which their action and " force may be iconveyed 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 fall into " it." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...anything else, by and through which this 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 must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 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.' The conviction which his conception of gravity thus impressed on Newton's mind,... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 484 pages
...anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another is to me eo great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has,...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 ;... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 pages
...anything else, 1 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 matters a competent i- faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction ii which his conception of gravity thus... | |
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