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,... Self Culture - עמוד 6801895תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
| Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 522 דפים
...thing 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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ;... | |
| Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 590 דפים
...absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting...constantly according to certain laws ; but whether that agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." Newton's III.... | |
| Richard Bentley - 1838 - 578 דפים
...thing 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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
| John BRINKLEY (Bishop of Cloyne.) - 1836 - 334 דפים
...distance. 336. Of the immediate cause of gravitation, he confesses himself ignorant. He says,* that gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws : but whether Ihis agent be material or immaterial, he did not attempt to decide. He reflected much on this subject,... | |
| Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 דפים
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ho man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ;... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1904 - 724 דפים
...mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ;... | |
| 1882 - 662 דפים
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can * Published, like the Astronomy, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. fall into it. Gravity... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 דפים
...their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can , v. r fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws."... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1849 - 500 דפים
...thing else, by and through wlu'ch their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws."... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1849 - 526 דפים
...thing 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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws."... | |
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