 It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential...  Proceedings - Pagina 46di Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1904Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1874 - 462 pagine
...anything between them, that in a letter to Bentley, which has been quoted by Faraday in this place, he says : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute...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 another... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - 1970 - 188 pagine
...which is not material, operate upon, and affect other Matter without mutual Contact, as it must be, if Gravitation in the Sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one Reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate Gravity to me. That Gravity should be innate,... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1977 - 890 pagine
...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 and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate,... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - 1990 - 1068 pagine
...distance, independently of anything between, that in a letter to Bentley. which has often been quoted, he says It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus be essential and Newton inherent in it That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one... | |
 | Leonard G. Cramp - 1997 - 436 pagine
...some subtle spirit by the force and action of which, all movement of matter are determined', and again in his third letter to Bentley he says: — 'It is...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 another... | |
 | Thomas P. Saine - 1997 - 388 pagine
...else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you [Bentley] would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 pagine
...which is not material, operate upon and effect other Matter without mutual Contact, as it must be, if Gravitation, in the 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... | |
 | Thomas Vargish, Delo E. Mook - 1999 - 228 pagine
...which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent... | |
 | Max Jammer - 1999 - 290 pagine
...which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate,... | |
 | Ken Hillis - 1999 - 318 pagine
...else which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be if gravitation, in the 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... | |
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