 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
 | 1756 - 702 pages
...aftion and force may be conveyed from one to another, il to me, (fays Sir Ifnac) fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 552 pages
...which their adion and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who " has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." See tbeThird of the Four Letters from Sir Ifaac Ntwtsn to Dr. Bently, printed for... | |
 | 1858 - 620 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...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...else, by and through which their ac" tion 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." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 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 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;... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an ab" surdity, that Í believe no man who has, in 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... | |
 | 1823 - 832 pages
...something 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. ' (See Horseley's Newton, Vol. IV. page 438.) I shall conclude with the following... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 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...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."... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 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 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... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 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 "...philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, "can ever fall into." I would therefore appeal, in the language of Newton, to any man who has the competent... | |
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