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| John Stuart Mill - Evidence - 1856 - 560 pages
...contact 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 which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great... | |
| Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1894 - 552 pages
...: " 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, is to me so great... | |
| Technology - 1857 - 664 pages
...says, " That gravity should be innate, internal, 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 out to another, U to me ťo great... | |
| Industrial arts - 1858 - 448 pages
..." That gravity should De innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one f 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, is to me so great... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1858 - 666 pages
.... . . 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 which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great... | |
| William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1907 - 876 pages
...refracted, and polarised do not, in this sense constitute light, though they may generate light when they enter the eye. If we could transport ourselves...part of the eighteenth century, when the influence of Boscovich predominated, on the other hand, the notion that gravity or electric or magnetic attraction... | |
| Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 pages
...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 which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great... | |
| Sir Henry Holland - Science - 1862 - 576 pages
...Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance, ; through 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... | |
| Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1865 - 530 pages
...for, in his third letter to Bentley, Newton explicitly states that " the idea of one body acting 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 to one another, is to him so great an absurdity... | |
| Methodist Church - 1865 - 648 pages
...: " That gravity should bo 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 thoir action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great... | |
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