 ... 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
 | 1883 - 572 pages
...property of bodies. " Gravity," he says, " 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 reader." Is it not safely affirmed that the data lacking in the days of Newton and Faraday are now... | |
 | George Gabriel Stokes - 1884 - 156 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." If the supposition that light consists in undulations obliges us to suppose that space is filled with... | |
 | Ágost Heller - 1884 - 778 pages
...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." Leiters to Dr. Bentley, Lett. III, Op. IV, pag. 438. können. Newton selbst kann höchstens zur Last... | |
 | 1884 - 946 pages
...passage from Sir Isaac Newton, who says, " 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." * Thus Sir David Brewster had a difficulty in conceiving... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 514 pages
...matter seems to him an ' absurdity.' 'Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material...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... | |
 | 1885 - 492 pages
...ub«urdity.1 'Gravitymustbecaused by anagent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether thin 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... | |
 | John Hume Kedzie - 1886 - 332 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." 21st Query. " Is not this medium [ether] much rarer within the dense bodies of the sun, stars, planets,... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1886 - 284 pages
...philosophical matters 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." Newton comes very near framing a hypothesis when, in speaking of the luminiferous ether, he asks :... | |
 | Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh - 1886 - 254 pages
...letters to his friend Bentley, says : " 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 reader." Every one who has not abdicated his manhood and renounced... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 pages
...Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agency be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my reader." — Newton's Third Letter to Bentley. A similar line of argument may be pursued in reference... | |
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