 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
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - 552 pages
...answer. " It is inconceivable," says New'ton, in a celebrated 'passage of his letter to Bentley, " that inanimate 'brute matter should, without the mediation...material, operate upon and affect other matter with.out mutuoj contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 pages
...them, that in a letter to Bentley, which has been quoted by Faraday in this place, he says : — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1875 - 436 pages
...Newton himself did not affirm this."2 On the contrary, he earnestly rejects any such hypothesis. " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential to and inherent in matter. . . . That gravitation should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,... | |
 | 1875 - 1004 pages
...Newton's letters to Bentley, cited by John Stuart Mill in his System of Logic, which runs as follows : ' It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...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... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 588 pages
...brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate opon und affect other matter without mutual contact, as it...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That gravity should bo innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pages
...to leave at least one master of the field. However, Newton himself emphatically repudiated the idea that ' inanimate brute matter should, without the...of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.' And whilst the disciples of Newton accept provisionally gravitation as the phenomenal law which alone enables... | |
 | 1876 - 592 pages
...to leave at least one master of the field. However, Newton himself emphatically repudiated the idea that ' inanimate brute matter should, without the...of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in- it.' And whilst the disciples of Newton accept provisionally gravitation as the phenomenal law which alone enables... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - 534 pages
...In his third letter, dated February 25, 1692-3. he expresses himself somewhat less guardedly thus: "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...Epicurus be essential and inherent in it. And this is oue reason why I desired you would not ascribe ' innate gravity ' to me. That gravity should be innate,... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 426 pages
...maxim that " a thing can not act where it is not." " It is inconceivable," he writes 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... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 422 pages
...maxim that " a thing can not act where it is not." " It is inconceivable," he writes to Dr. Bentley, "that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...not material, operate upon and affect other matter vritftout mutual contact. * * * That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so... | |
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