| 1756 - 704 σελίδες
...aftion and force may be conveyed from one to another, il to me, (fays Sir Ifnac) fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain laws." But fuppofing... | |
| Richard Price - 1772 - 482 σελίδες
...may aft upon another f at a diftance through a vacuum, without the '' mediation of any thing elfe, by and through which •' their action and force may be conveyed from one f* io another, is to me fo great an abfurdity that I f believe no man who h"s in phijofophical matters... | |
| Richard Price - 1777 - 500 σελίδες
...body may afl upon another at a diftancf " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and <« force may be conveyed from one to another, is to 'c me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who *« has in philofophical matters a competent... | |
| Richard Price - 1777 - 554 σελίδες
...diftance " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their adion and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who " has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1802 - 610 σελίδες
...one to another, is to me fo great an " abfurdity, that I believe no man who has, in phi" lofophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, " can ever fall into it." With this paflage I fo far agree, as to allow that it is impoffible to conceive, in what manner one body acts... | |
| 1858 - 620 σελίδες
...one body may act upon another at a distance, through ' a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and ' ' through which their action and force...competent faculty ' of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind, is enforced... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 520 σελίδες
...fo that one body may act on another, " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to *' me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man " who has, in philofophical matters, a competent *' faculty... | |
| 1856 - 974 σελίδες
...should be innate, inherent, and essentjal to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything...and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, he says, to him a great absurdity. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 σελίδες
...matter, so that one body may act on ano'* ther, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed u from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe '• no man who has, in philosophical... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 σελίδες
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent... | |
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