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" ... 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 574
by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872
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Bentley, Volume 13

Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1899 - 276 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...
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Stars and Telescopes: A Hand-book of Popular Astronomy, Founded on the 9th ...

David Peck Todd - 1899 - 492 pages
...what I do not pretend to know. . . . 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 considerat1on of my readers.' Consult Professor TAIT'S Properties of Matter, pp. 131-138, CLERK MAXWELL'S...
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Popular Science Monthly, Volume 59

1901 - 624 pages
...of thinking, cnn 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." Summarily put, this means that the solar system is the type of universe, and it is a system, because...
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Invisible Light: Or, The Electric Theory of Creation

George Woodward Warder - 1900 - 358 pages
...gravitation be essential and inherent in 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." Says another scientist of this declaration, " These statements of the great discoverer of the occult...
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Schopenhauers Stellung zu der Naturwissenschaft

Karl Ludwig Schewe - 1905 - 138 pages
...contact. . . . Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but wether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." Anhang zu Kapitel I. Stellen wir uns jetzt noch die Frage : was hat Schopenhauer auf Grund seiner naturwissenschaftlich...
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Erkenntnis und Irrtum: Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung

Ernst Mach - 1905 - 500 pages
...into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but wheter this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." (Febr. 25. 1692—1693).1) 7. Newtons Forschungsweg und Stellung scheint also ganz klar. Er wurde zu...
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Erkenntnis und Irrtum: Skizzen zur Psychologie der Forschung

Ernst Mach - 1906 - 498 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." (Febr. 25. 1692— 1693.) l) ') Newtoni Opera. Ed. Horseley. London 1782. Tom. IV, p. 437— 438. In...
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The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic Mechanism

Carl Snyder - 1907 - 520 pages
...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into. 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." The riddle of Newton's time remains a riddle to our own. In some regards the mystery has deepened rather...
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A History of European Thought in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1

John Theodore Merz - 1907 - 482 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 " (3rd letter to Bentley, 5th February 1692-93). And in the fifth answer to Leibniz (published after...
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The World Machine: The First Phase; the Cosmic Mechanism

Carl Snyder - 1907 - 516 pages
...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into. 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." The riddle of Newton's time remains a riddle to our own. In some regards the mystery has deepened rather...
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