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,... Proceedings - Pagina 46di Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1904Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
| Bence Jones - 1870 - 512 pagine
...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 so great an absurdity, that I believe no man wTho has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
| Thomas Doubleday - 1870 - 190 pagine
...of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has, in philosophical matters, competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To this remark of Sir Isaac Newton it is proper... | |
| B. F. Cocker - 1870 - 546 pagine
...approbation the words of Newton, "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, is so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it" (p. 368). "The 'force of... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 914 pagine
...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 to me so great...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. * On the other hand, by the middle of last century the mathematical naturalists of the Continent, after... | |
| Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1872 - 96 pagine
...through a vacuum and without the mediat1on of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great...has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of think1ng can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly, according to... | |
| John Quarry - 1873 - 664 pagine
...else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me BO great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." If, as the physical properties of matter seem plainly to show, there is no actual Hence' the assigning... | |
| James Gracey Murphy - 1873 - 360 pagine
...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 to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused... | |
| 1874 - 1060 pagine
...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 to me so great...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at Cambridge,... | |
| John Tyndall - 1874 - 216 pagine
...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 so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who Las in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be... | |
| John Albert Broadus - 1874 - 436 pagine
...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 to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Accordingly he... | |
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