 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,...  Life and the equivalence of force - Pàgina 95per John James Drysdale - 1870Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1756 - 704 pàgines
...aftion and force may be conveyed from one to another, il to me, (fays Sir Ifnac) fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain laws." But fuppofing gravity... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1756 - 50 pàgines
...one one to another, is to me fo great an Abfurdity, that I believe no Man who has in philofophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an Agent acting conftantly according to certain Laws ; but whether this Agent be... | |
 | Richard Price - 1772 - 482 pàgines
...may aft upon another f at a diftance through a vacuum, without the '' mediation of any thing elfe, by and through which •' their action and force may be conveyed from one f* io another, is to me fo great an abfurdity that I f believe no man who h"s in phijofophical matters... | |
 | 1776 - 568 pàgines
...frcm one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man. who has, in philofophic.nl matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an agent aeling "* conftantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 500 pàgines
...body may afl upon another at a diftancf " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and <« force may be conveyed from one to another, is to 'c me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who *« has in philofophical matters a competent... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 554 pàgines
...diftance " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their adion and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who " has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | 1858 - 620 pàgines
...one body may act upon another at a distance, through ' a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and ' ' through which their action and force...competent faculty ' of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind, is enforced... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 520 pàgines
...fo that one body may act on another, " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to *' me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man " who has, in philofophical matters, a competent *' faculty... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pàgines
...another, through a vacuum, without the me" diation of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | 1856 - 482 pàgines
...philosopher. 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...and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, he says, to him a great absurdity. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according... | |
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