 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 σελίδες
...should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 σελίδες
...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...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity thus impressed on Newton's mind, is enforced upon us... | |
 | 1862 - 794 σελίδες
...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...competent " faculty of thinking, can ever fall into " it." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest star whose beams... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 σελίδες
...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 σελίδες
...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...no man who has in philosophical matters a competent i- faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction ii which his conception of gravity thus... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 σελίδες
...dictum of " common-sense :" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose "absurdity is so great that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it!"* And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition — that matter is capable... | |
 | 1862 - 542 σελίδες
...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 to " another, is to me so great an absurdity, " that I believe no man who has in... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 480 σελίδες
...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another is to me eo great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty... | |
 | 1863 - 718 σελίδες
...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...by and through which their action and force may be convoyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical... | |
 | 1865 - 648 σελίδες
...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...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." See Newton's Third Letter to Bentley. of ordinary combustion. If we examine the solar spectrum, we... | |
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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,... 
