 It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential...  Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 573by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872Full view - About this book
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 474 pages
...power, seems ю to me apparently absurd. The last clause of your second Position I like very well. Tis inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should...which is not material) operate upon and affect other is matter without mutual contact ; as it must, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 896 pages
...clause of your second Position I like very well. Tis inconceivable, that inanimate brute mat- / ter should (without the mediation of something else, which is not material) operate upon and affect other is matter without mutual contact ; as it must, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1843 - 648 pages
...phenomena of gravitation. " It is inconceivable," said Newton, in one of his letters to Dr. Bentley*, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pages
...manifested the same phenomena, and might therefore be classed together ; sparks were obtained from both, * " It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should,...affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why... | |
 | 1882 - 662 pages
...something else which is not material, operate on and affect other matter, without contact, as it must if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe that notion to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent,... | |
 | 1847 - 28 pages
...phenomena of gravitation. ' It is inconceivable,' said Newton, in one of his letters to Dr. Bentley, ' that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - 340 pages
...expressly disavows in his often quoted letter to Dr. Bentley. " It is inconceivable," writes Newton, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, which it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus be essential and inherent in it, and this... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...placed at a distance from each other without any intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate,... | |
 | Joseph Devey - 1854 - 420 pages
...might be conveyed to each other. " It is inconceivable," said Newton, in propounding this theory, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact That gravity should be innate and essential to matter so that one body should act on another through... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...placed at a distance from each other without any intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...which is not material, operate upon, and affect other i See An Antwer to Lnrd Kamts'l Kxlny nn Motion; by John Stewait, MI). matter without mutual contact,... | |
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