 ... a vacuum, without the mediation of anything 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,...  Nature - Page 230edited by - 1893Full view - About this book
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 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 or 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... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 210 pages
...believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent 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 my readers.'... | |
 | 1868 - 346 pages
...believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; bnt whether ;his agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers."... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 522 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 or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." x ' Faraday does not see the same difficulty in his contiguous particles. And yet by transferring... | |
 | John James Drysdale - 1870 - 152 pages
...believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent 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 my readers."... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1870 - 842 pages
...believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent 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 my readers."... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 534 pages
...believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent 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 my readers."... | |
 | John Brinkley - 1871 - 344 pages
...the distance. 335. Of the immediate cause of gravitation he confesses himself ignorant. He says" that gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws: but whether this agent be material or immaterial he did not attempt to decide. He reflected much... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 914 pages
...involviren." VOL. VII. 4 H '' Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly accord" ing to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or " immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." — Newton's Third Letter to Bentley, February 25th, 1692-3. " Nobody surely, in his sober... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1872 - 96 pages
...believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of think1ng 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 my readers."... | |
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