 ... 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
 | Honoré de Balzac - 1896 - 592 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." In effect, Newton regarded gravitation not as a primary but as a secondary phenomenon, and since his... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1896 - 380 pages
...ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain fixed laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." What the nature of the connection between the earth and the sun, for example, may be whereby the sun... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1896 - 520 pages
...into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; butwhether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers " (3d letter to Bentley, 5th February 1692-93). And in the fifth answer to Leibniz (published after... | |
 | Solomon Joseph Silberstein - 1896 - 314 pages
...it," and in another letter stated : "Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I left to the consideration of my reader" — I, therefore, in this problem have only to analyze the... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1897 - 396 pages
...similarly to this effect, averring 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." Again, in the Principia, at the conclusion of the third book, he writes: " Hitherto I have not been... | |
 | 1897 - 840 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." So keenly were the difficulties of this paradox felt, that many of Newton's eminent contemporaries,... | |
 | 1897 - 814 pages
...thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according lo certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left lo the consideration of my readers.' Of what that medium may consist, we cannot, of course hazard even... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1898 - 350 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." f Faraday does not see the same difficulty in his contiguous particles. And yet by transferring the... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 958 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... | |
 | Walter McDonald - 1898 - 480 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 For an explanation of the phenomena of gravitation Newton seems to have looked to the universally... | |
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