 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
 | John Quarry - 1873 - 664 pages
...else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me BO great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." If, as the physical properties of matter seem plainly to show, there is no actual... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 390 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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Koger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 392 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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 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." Accordingly, we find in his ' Optical Queries,' and in his letters to Boyle, that... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 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.' Upon this passage the author proceeds to remark : — ' And yet not long after... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 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." Neverthe]ess, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 962 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to BQ great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 588 pages
...by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so forçat an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Accordingly, wo find in his ' Optical Queries,' and in his letters to Boyle, that... | |
 | 1875 - 244 pages
...into being, existed potentially somewhere ; for ex nihiio nihil fit is a maxim, the validity of which no man, who has in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever doubt. The question is not of the existence of a power, adequate to produce all visible effects... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 406 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 philol sophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotea, who was... | |
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