...vacuum without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed through one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it". This is explicit enough. The constant efforts of men of science since Newton's day to account for gravitation...

...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To a friend he wrote : " It is inconceivable that innate brute matter should without the mediation...

...common-sense :" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose " absurdity is so great that no man who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it !" * And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition — that matter is...

...through a vaeuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and/one may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great...fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, active constantly, according to certain laws." NOTE 58, page 131, line 16. — This philosopher, who...

...and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is so great an absurdity, that no man, who has in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." From this it inevitably follows, that no body, or system of bodies can possess energy merely by virtue...

...that one body can act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." capillary action : — Magnetic and electrical attraction and repulsion, which, as far as their manifestation...

...a. distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of any thing else by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Nevertheless, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to be one of the primary...

...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of any thing else by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Nevertheless, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to be one of the primary...

...of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me SO great an absurdity, that I believe no...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Newton however, illogically, fought against substance beyond the range of the senses, and and denied...

...decision to his reader. He adds : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." This disposes of the theory of universal gravitation, which scholastics attribute to him. It certainly...