...notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know." And again in the third letter: "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...of something else, which is not material, operate on, and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of...

...gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it." " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...mediation of something else which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus...

...Fähigkeit zur Bewegungsänderung inhäriere, sondern dafs ein immaterielles Prinzip zur 1 A. a. 0. p. 438. It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something clse, which . not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must...

...involving no consideration of real and primary physical causes. " It is inconceivable," he says, " 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 upon...

...been repeated to adventurous hypothecators as the example of the model scientific man. Hear him ! " 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...

...action of which all movements of matter are determined";! and in his Third Letter \o Bentley 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 may act upon...

...power, seems 10 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 \& matter without mutual contact ; as it must, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential...

...nonmechanical, immaterial and even "spiritual" energy extraneous to matter'.2 As Newton wrote to Bentley, 'It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute Matter...upon, and affect other Matter, without mutual contact . . . '.3 Forces would thus require, for Newton, 'in the last analysis, the constant action in the...

...single end, expressed in his letter to Richard Bentley in 1691, when he said that it was 'unconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation...something else which is not material) operate upon & affect other matter without mutual contact . . .' Further, that 'gravity' is of such a nature that...

...could his material particles, by nature, possess such an innate quality. It is inconceivable [he says] that inanimate brute matter, should, without the mediation...affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation ... be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desire you would...