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" 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 any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... "
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 573
by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872
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The Emancipation of Faith, Volume 1

Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 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 a body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else,...
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Caloric: Its Mechanical, Chemical and Vital Agencies in the ..., Volume 1

Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 658 pages
...pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider." (Page 20.) He adds, in another letter: "That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...so that one body may act upon another at a distance * The same idea was advanced about 2000 years ago by Plato, who observes in the Timseus, that "it is...
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Caloric: its mechanical, chemical and vital agencies in the ..., Volume 1

Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pages
...therefore would take more time to consider." (Page 20.) He adds, in another letter: "That gravitjshould be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance * The same idea was advanced about 2000 years ago by Plato, who observes in the Timseus, that "it is...
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The Existence of the Deity Evidenced by Power and Unity in Creation; from ...

Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 pages
...would be " in direct opposition to it ;"* and Sir I. Newton says in his third letter to Bentley, " 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...
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The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of ..., Volume 15

James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...Bence Jones, he was fond of quoting the following passage from a letter of Newton to Bentley:— " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed...
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MacMillan's Magazine, Volume 6

Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 pages
...emphatic words testify : " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon ' another at a distance, through a vacuum ' without mediation of anything else by ' and through which their action and ' force may be conveyed from one...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 6

1862 - 542 pages
...emphatic words testify: " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon " another at a distance, through a vacuum " without mediation of anything else by " and through which their action and " force may be iconveyed from one...
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The Correlation and Conservation of Forces: A Series of Expositions, by Prof ...

Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pages
...mechanical force. This must * Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 1855, vol. it, p. 10, etc. t " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is...
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Methodist Magazine and Quarterly Review, Volume 17; Volume 25; Volume 47

1865 - 656 pages
...sun, and in all cases * Newton considered some such medium necessary in the case of gravity. He says: "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the nwdiniion of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to...
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The Correlation and Conservation of Forces: A Series of Expositions, by Prof ...

Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...the Royal Institution, 1856, vol. ii., p. 10, etc. f "That gravity should be innate, inherent,»und essential to matter, so that one body may act upon...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is...
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