 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,...  The Correlation and conservation of forces - Page 344by Edward Livingston Youmans - 1868 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1857 - 674 pages
...another at a distnnce, through a vacuum, icithout the mediation of any thing eise , by and through wich their action and force may be conveyed from one to...to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man icho hos in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking kan ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1857 - 644 pages
...and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another, at л distance, through a rncrtuiít, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, ú to me so'preat an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters n competent faculty... | |
 | 1857 - 664 pages
...immortal Newton, when he says, " That gravity should be innate, internal, 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 out to another, U to... | |
 | 1857 - 796 pages
...1855, Vol. ii., p. 10, &c. t " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a cacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be... | |
 | 1857 - 702 pages
...folgendermassen ausgesprochen : „Thal gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacutim, without t he Mediation of any thing eise, by and through wich their action and force may be... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 638 pages
...abrupt end to inquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying : " To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...thing else, by and through which their action and i'orce may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...ii., p. 10, etc. t " That gravity should De innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one f 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, is... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pages
...to cohere, without the intervention of a third." through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is Jo me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 pages
...abrupt end to enquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance, ; through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 1 by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pages
...words testify: " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon " another at a distance, through a vacuum " without mediation of anything else by " and through which their action and " force may be iconveyed from one... | |
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