 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
 | Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) - 1876 - 568 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...a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it." This assertion has been severely criticised. Still the reasoning on which Newton bases it is sound,... | |
 | Bernhard Riemann, Heinrich Weber - 1876 - 537 pages
...anything eise, 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." See the third letter to Bentley, demselben beigelegt werden muss ; und durch dm... | |
 | 1883 - 648 pages
...of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed through 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 ". This is explicit enough. The constant efforts of men of science since Newton's... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1876 - 346 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." The view, however, which Newton thus condemns, is not that gravity is physically... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pages
...Sage's mechanical theory of gravitation be the true theory or not, yet, to use the words of Newton, ' no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,' can ever fall into the absurdity that gravity is ' innate, inherent, and essential to matter.' The history... | |
 | 1876 - 592 pages
...mechanical theory of gravitation be the true theory or not, yet, to use the words of Newton,' * nt> man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,' can ever fall into the absurdity that gravity is ' innate, inherent, and essential to matter.' The history... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 426 pages
...to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it....agent acting constantly according to certain laws !" (Playfair, " Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematics and Physical Science "). 126 MATTER VIEWED... | |
 | Edward Vogel - 1877 - 54 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 ;... | |
 | Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1877 - 492 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force can 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." As a per-contra, however, I will now quote the words of one second to no living... | |
 | Edmund Beckett (1st baron Grimthorpe.) - 1879 - 124 pages
...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...into it. Gravity ' must be caused by an agent, acting according to cer' tain laws : but whether this agent be material or imma' terial I have left to the... | |
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