 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 573by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872Full view - About this book
 | John Tyndall - 1872 - 210 pages
...loved to quote Newton upon this point : over and over again he introduces his memorable words, ' That i 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... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1872 - 96 pages
...which action constitutes the propagation of its distant effects ? Surely, in the language of Newton, " that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediat1on of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed... | |
 | John Quarry - 1873 - 664 pages
...And this if one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity tome. That gravity shMild be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that...body may act upon another at a distance through a ratuiim, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 516 pages
...contact, as it must do if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... 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... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 524 pages
...contact, as it must do if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... 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... | |
 | 1874 - 596 pages
...lost, by some other moving matter, or matter that has moved. Concerning this Sir. Tsaac Newton says, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...one body may act upon another at a distance through vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1874 - 532 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 upon another through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - 552 pages
...something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter with.out mutuoj contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force... | |
 | 1874 - 800 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... | |
 | 1874 - 1060 pages
...merits of the plenum and the vacuum. Newton, in his third letter to Bentley, wrote in this wise : " That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that oue body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else,... | |
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