 ... 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
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 512 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... | |
 | George William von Tunzelmann - 1910 - 696 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." In query 21, at the end of Newton's Opticks, the pressure of an ambient medium is definitely suggested... | |
 | Robert Mark Wenley - 1910 - 328 pages
...must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws;1 but 1 The italics are mine. whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." On the philosophical side, the teaching of Descartes led to the same conclusion in all essentials.... | |
 | 1911 - 942 pages
...of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting continuously according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." Twenty -five years later, "as if driven back from even' assault to the only retreat, which in earlier... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - 1970 - 188 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" (Cohen and Schofield, pp. 302-303). M Principia, General Scholium, p. 547. and as the pressure of the... | |
 | J. S. Bromley - 1970 - 992 pages
...there must be an explanation of gravity: it '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'.2 Gravity may be due to the action of an 'aether', consisting of ' parts differing from one... | |
 | Arthur Quinn - 1977 - 328 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. Bentley did have a competent enough faculty to consider the ultimate cause of gravity as spiritual.... | |
 | 1855 - 1070 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." See the third letter to Bentley. round masses), and that the known experimental difference on the opposite... | |
 | 1880 - 502 pages
...(187.S) p. 251. t Communicated by the Physical Society, having been read at the Meeting on November 13. 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... | |
 | Morris Berman - 1981 - 364 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.20 Publicly, however, Newton adopted a stance that established, once and for all, the philosophical... | |
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