 ... 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 faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...  The Artizan - Page 1181868Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my reader." — See Newton's Third Letter to Bentley. in this, that its power is unchangeable for the... | |
 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." * Phil. Mag. vol. XIH, p. 228. Taking into account, therefore, that no direct proof can be given of... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." Faraday's own views on this subject were never very clear to other people. He recognised " lines of... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my reader." — Stt A- ;<•».«',< Third LeOer to BenOey. be due to the force exerted, and, if the conservation... | |
 | Paul Janet - 1866 - 216 pages
...must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent is material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."* It results from these different texts that in the eyes of Newton (who has certainly some right to command... | |
 | Paul Janet - 1867 - 214 pages
...must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent is material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."* It results from these different texts that in the eyes of Newton (who has certainly some right to command... | |
 | 1868 - 472 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the...particles. And yet by transferring the conception from masses to particles we simply lessen size and distance, but we do not alter the quality of the conception.... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 210 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the...particles. And yet, by transferring the conception from masses to particles, we simply lessen size and distance, but we do not alter the quality of the conception.... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 pages
...it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the...particles. And yet by transferring the conception from masses to particles wo simply lessen size and distance, but we do not alter the quality of the conception.... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 534 pages
...but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." l ' Faraday does not see the same difficulty in his contiguous...particles. And yet by transferring the conception from masses to particles we simply lessen size and distance, but we do not alter the quality of the conception.... | |
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