 That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 353by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Sissel Kohanski - 1984 - 352 pages
...affirm gravity to be essential to bodies: by their vis insita I mean nothing but their inertia. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws.29" As to the ultimate nature of the centripetal force, that is, "the propension of the whole... | |
 | G.M. Hagen, Fred Wenstop - 1984 - 302 pages
...may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an Absurdity , that I believe no man who have in philosophical matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it". What one calls the intermediate medium whose consideration is, in any event, inevitable, is, to repeat... | |
 | Stuart Shanker - 1986 - 344 pages
...be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance... is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. It was his own theory of action at a distance which led him to both scepticism and mysticism. He reasoned... | |
 | Delo E. Mook, Thomas Vargish - 1987 - 324 pages
...Richard Bently (1692-93, some five years after the first edition of the Principia), Newton writes: That one body may act upon another at a distance through...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." In the Principia itself Newton states: We have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea... | |
 | David Park - 1990 - 488 pages
...Distance thro' a Vacuum, without tinMediation of any thing else, by and through which their Action ami Force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me...Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must he caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain Laws; but whether this Agent be material... | |
 | Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine - 1989 - 388 pages
...[T]hat one body may 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. But after his theory of gravity continued its perfect record of success for over a century, its style... | |
 | Evelyn Fox Keller - 1992 - 212 pages
...of solid matter which [particles] contain," should be innate, inherent and essential to Matter ... is to me so great an Absurdity, that I believe no...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it (in Deason 1986:183). For Newton, all motion and all life derived from without, from "active Principles"... | |
 | Harold M. Edwards - 1994 - 532 pages
...that one body may 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." (Newton.s third letter to Bentley.) which is the inverse square law. Thus the equations (2) and (3)... | |
 | Jan Hilgevoord, Praemium Erasmianum Foundation - 1994 - 326 pages
...one body may act upon another at a distance in a vacuum without the mediation of anything else ... is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man,...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' (Isaac Newton's Papers and Letters in Natural Philosophy, ed. IB Cohen (Harvard University Press, 1958),... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 1994 - 312 pages
...which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that 1 believe no man. who has in philosophical matters a...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. (McMullin 1978. p. 58) 1n the period between the first and second editions of his Principia, Newton... | |
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