 ... 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
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1882 - 252 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." One of the most interesting points in these letters is to see how a mind like Bentley's, so wonderfully... | |
 | Helena Petrovna Blavatsky - 1888 - 732 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." At this, even Newton's contemporaries got frightened — at the apparent return of occult causes into... | |
 | George Stearns - 1888 - 348 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." "There you have it plain and flat." Newton saw that the notion of physical attraction is nbmrd. He... | |
 | 1889 - 784 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." 1 In another connection he says : " The reason of these properties of gravity I have not as yet been... | |
 | Honoré de Balzac - 1889 - 430 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...or immaterial I have left to the consideration of jay readers." In effect, Newton regarded gravitation not as a primary but as a secondary phenomenon,... | |
 | 1890 - 1208 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." Of what that medium may consist, we cannot, of course, hazard even a- conjecture; but if it be composed... | |
 | Kurd Lasswitz - 1890 - 642 pages
...of thinking, cau 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, COTES, BENTLEY: Das theologische Interesse. 577 Materie hinzutrete. l Die Einheit der Natur... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 206 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 does not see the same difficulty in his contiguous particles. And yet, by transferring the... | |
 | Kurd Lasswitz - 1890 - 630 pages
...of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent actiug constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readera. NEWTOS, COTES, BENTLEY: Das theologische Interesse. 577 Materie hinzutrete.1 Die Einheit der... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1890 - 356 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...or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of ray readers." 161. When we come to deal with molecular forces we shall find that small bodies, such... | |
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