 ... 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
 | Ramón Manterola - 1884 - 406 pages
...notion to me, f or the cause of gravity is wnat I do not pretend to know." Y en la tercera carta dice; "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."... | |
 | George Gabriel Stokes - 1884 - 156 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."... | |
 | 1884 - 946 pages
...Professor Stokes then quotes a well-known but remarkable passage from Sir Isaac Newton, who says, " Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I leave to the consideration of my readers."... | |
 | Ágost Heller - 1884 - 778 pages
...no man who has in philosophical mattere a com„petent 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."... | |
 | 1885 - 492 pages
...ub«urdity.1 'Gravitymustbecaused by anagent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether thin agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.' Taken as a whole, Bentley's ' Boyle Lectures 'afford a signal proof of his vigorous ability... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1885 - 344 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."... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 514 pages
...positively, and declares that the notion of gravity being inherent to matter seems to him an ' absurdity.' '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.'-... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 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 agency be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my reader."... | |
 | Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh - 1886 - 254 pages
...or towards centers of other masses." Newton, in one of his letters to his friend Bentley, says : " Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly, according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my reader."... | |
 | John Hume Kedzie - 1886 - 332 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."... | |
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