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,... Mind - Sayfa 2811883Tam görünüm - Bu kitap hakkında
| Henri Édouard Schedel - 1858 - 508 sayfa
...something else which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter, without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that a body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else,... | |
| Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 658 sayfa
...pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider." (Page 20.) He adds, in another letter: "That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...so that one body may act upon another at a distance * The same idea was advanced about 2000 years ago by Plato, who observes in the Timseus, that "it is... | |
| Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 sayfa
...therefore would take more time to consider." (Page 20.) He adds, in another letter: "That gravitjshould be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance * The same idea was advanced about 2000 years ago by Plato, who observes in the Timseus, that "it is... | |
| Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 sayfa
...would be " in direct opposition to it ;"* and Sir I. Newton says in his third letter to Bentley, " That gravity 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 else, by and through... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - 1907 - 876 sayfa
...idea that gravity might be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body might attract another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, was an absurdity into which no man having a competent faculty of thinking in philosophical matters... | |
| Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 sayfa
...abrupt end to enquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...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... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 sayfa
...Bence Jones, he was fond of quoting the following passage from a letter of Newton to Bentley:— " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed... | |
| Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 sayfa
...abrupt end to enquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 1 by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great... | |
| 1862 - 542 sayfa
...emphatic words testify: " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to 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... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 sayfa
...emphatic words testify : " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to 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 conveyed from one... | |
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