 ... else, by and through which their 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...  Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 574by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872Full view - About this book
 | 1874 - 596 pages
...of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." What is the nature of the agent that impels bodies toward each other according to the law of gravitation?... | |
 | 1876 - 814 pages
...of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material...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 Vogel - 1877 - 54 pages
...faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." Faraday says on the same subject, in his article on the conservation of force : " For my own part,... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - 534 pages
...faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material...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... | |
 | 1877 - 652 pages
...faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material...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
...that immediately follow : ' 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... | |
 | Zachariah Allen - 1879 - 270 pages
...attraction of gravitation, he says : "Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly, and according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I leave to the imagination of my readers." In describing the properties of matter, he afterward affirms,... | |
 | John Quarry - 1880 - 216 pages
...competent faculty, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my readers." It is plain enough what Newton's own opinion really was,... | |
 | 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
...third letter to Dr. Bentley, that " gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material...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 ,... | |
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