| Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 426 pages
...something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. * * * That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1877 - 492 pages
...of gravitation, I beg to quote what Sir Isaac Newton says. Here are the great Newton's own words : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and... | |
| Thomas Harper - 1884 - 444 pages
...something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
| Alexander Wilford Hall - 1883 - 552 pages
...of incorporeal entities as he contemplated the law of gravitation. In a letter to Bentley he says: " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which... | |
| 1881 - 460 pages
...In the first place, Newton-s words, contained in the Third Letter to Bentloy, are as follows :—" That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another body at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else by and through... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1881 - 674 pages
...is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact That gravity should bo innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through... | |
| Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne - 1884 - 230 pages
...some medium of influence— some substance in contact with substance. Writing to Bentley, he said — "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...body may act upon another at a distance, through a vaeuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and/one may be conveyed... | |
| George Gabriel Stokes - 1884 - 156 pages
...to Bentley, quoted by Faraday as falling in with his own views, Newton thus expressed himself : — "That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which... | |
| Thomas Harper - 1884 - 446 pages
...something else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body mayact on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and... | |
| 1884 - 400 pages
...glimpse of this new world of incorporeal entities as he contemplated the law of gravitation. He says: " That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body can act on another at a distance through a vacunm, without the mediation of anything else by and through... | |
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