 | 1814 - 550 pàgines
...gravity a power innate, inherent, and essential to matter; and in a letter to Dr. Bentley had said, that "gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my readers." This agent and its mode of action... | |
 | 1856 - 974 pàgines
...their action 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 to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial he leaves to the consideration of his readers. This is the onward looking... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pàgines
...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...according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. " In the next part of your... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pàgines
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,...according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." * " The immense void betwixt... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 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...Agent acting constantly according " to certain laws." He further says, " In my former letter, I represented, that the " diurnal rotations of the planets... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 662 pàgines
...without the mediation of any thing else, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...according to certain laws. But whether this agent be material, or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." It is evident, then, that... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 232 pàgines
...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...constantly according to certain laws ; but whether that agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." Newton's III.... | |
 | John BRINKLEY (Bishop of Cloyne.) - 1836 - 334 pàgines
...distance. 336. Of the immediate cause of gravitation, he confesses himself ignorant. He says,* that gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws : but whether Ihis agent be material or immaterial, he did not attempt to decide. He reflected much on this subject,... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 580 pàgines
...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...according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 pàgines
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ho man, who has in philosophical matters a competent...according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that... | |
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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,... 
