 ... 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
 | 1877 - 652 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."t At the conclusion of the third book of his Principia, Newton remarks : " Hitherto I have... | |
 | Thomas Harper - 1884 - 444 pages
...: ' Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to fixed laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.' Mr. Browne discovers in this sentence an explanation and limitation of the judgment expressed ; and... | |
 | 1881 - 460 pages
...agent acting constantly according to fixed laws ; but whether this agent be * Read November 13, 1880. material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." Now, in speaking of this passage, it is- usual to quote the first of these sentences only, and omit... | |
 | William Sedgwick - 1882 - 328 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 readers;" after having in his second letter stated that " the Motions which the Planets now have could not ,... | |
 | 1883 - 572 pages
...says, " 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." Is it not safely affirmed that the data lacking in the days of Newton and Faraday are now... | |
 | Ramón Manterola - 1884 - 406 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 readers." A. propósito de este mismo asunto, dice el Abate Moigno en su obra Matíere et force, (pag. 57 .):... | |
 | George Gabriel Stokes - 1884 - 156 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." If the supposition that light consists in undulations obliges us to suppose that space is filled with... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1885 - 344 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." 161. When we come to deal with molecular forces we shall find that small bodies, such as sticks, straws,... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 514 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 readers.'- Taken as a whole, Bentley's ' Boyle Lectures "afford a signal proof of his vigorous ability in grasping... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1886 - 284 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." Newton comes very near framing a hypothesis when, in speaking of the luminiferous ether, he asks :... | |
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