 | 1858 - 620 pages
...abrupt end to inquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, ' To sup* pose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...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... | |
 | 1856 - 974 pages
...sufficient or satisfactory thought for a philosopher. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essentjal to matter, so that one body may act upon another at...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, is,... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 940 pages
...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, inherent, and essential...any 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... | |
 | John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 464 pages
...in it. 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...any 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - Human information processing - 1822 - 572 pages
...inherent in it. And this is one " reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so " that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the " mediation of any thing else, by and through which their... | |
 | John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 458 pages
...contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. 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 any thing else, by and through... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 832 pages
...according to his opinion, we cannot conceive a body to act where it is not. " That gravity (said he) should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. 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 any thing else, by and through... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 844 pages
...contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. 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 any thing else, by and through... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desire you would not ascribe inherent gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...any 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... | |
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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,... 
