| Richard Price - 1772 - 482 pągines
...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 pągines
...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 pągines
...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... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 520 pągines
...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... | |
| 1856 - 482 pągines
...attraction of distant portions of matter was not a sufficient or satisfactory thought for a philosopher. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...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... | |
| 1856 - 974 pągines
...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...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... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pągines
...matter, so " that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the " mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and " force...conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an ab" surdity, that Ķ believe no man who has, in philosophical matters, a " competent faculty of thinking',... | |
| Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 pągines
...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...another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ho man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pągines
...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...one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can , v. r fall... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 530 pągines
...another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through wliich their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into... | |
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