| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 1858 - 620 pàgines
...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, through ' a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and ' ' through which their action and force may be conveyed from ' one to another,... | |
| 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,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 382 pàgines
...matter, so that one body may act on ano" ther, through a vacuum, without the mediation of 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 who has, in philosophical matters,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 pàgines
...matter, so that one body may act on ano'* ther, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed u from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe '• no man who has, in philosophical... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pàgines
...ascribe innate gravity to me. 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 any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pàgines
...that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of 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 who, in philosophical matters, has... | |
| 1823 - 832 pàgines
...act where it is not. " That gravity (said he) 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 something else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| 1824 - 844 pàgines
...that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of 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 who, in philosophical matters, has... | |
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