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
| Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 דפים
...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 —... | |
| 1865 - 648 דפים
...anything else, by and through which thoir 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." See Newton's Third Letter to Bentley. of ordinary combustion. If we examine the... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 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... | |
| 1865 - 530 דפים
...their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." In the laws of gravitation, the motions of the heavenly bodies are proposed as a mechanical... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1865 - 530 דפים
...their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." In the laws of gravitation, the motions of the heavenly bodies are proposed as a mechanical... | |
| Paul Janet - 1866 - 216 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...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 ;... | |
| Paul Janet - 1867 - 214 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...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 ;... | |
| 1868 - 346 דפים
...anything else, by and through which this action nnd 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 ;... | |
| John Tyndall - 1868 - 210 דפים
...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 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 ;... | |
| 1874 - 802 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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural... | |
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