 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
 | 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... | |
 | Ernst Rethwisch - 1882 - 100 pages
...it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. Und weiter: That gravity should be innate inherent and essential...through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything eise, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to other, is to me so great... | |
 | Ágost Heller - 1882 - 1242 pages
...die Sünden der Scholastiker *) „Thal gravity should be innatc, inherent and esaentiaj to •!•* „so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a YICIMV „without the mediation of anv thing eise, by and through which Üwiritf* „and force may... | |
 | 1883 - 572 pages
...known facts of gravity. Newton himself, in direct contrast with what is considered as his theory, says that "gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the medium of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... | |
 | 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... | |
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