 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 540 pàgines
...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 , v. r fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws."... | |
 | 1847 - 900 pàgines
...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...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fell into." (Vide, Harper's... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - 426 pàgines
...and inherent in it, and this is the reason why I desire that you would not ascribe it to me. It is so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent way of thinking, can ever fall into it." * So even those may dis* On tins subject, Stewart remarks... | |
 | Joseph Devey - 1854 - 420 pàgines
...gravity should be innate and essential to matter so that one body should act on another through a vacuum, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has a competent faculty of thinking in philosophical matters can ever fall into it." It does not appear... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 632 pàgines
...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...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into. Gravity must be cnused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 512 pàgines
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a ractntm, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fell into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws." Gravity... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 614 pàgines
...that one body may act npon another at a distance throngh * vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matten a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by :m agent acting... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 620 pàgines
...vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may bo conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1856 - 560 pàgines
...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...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." This passage... | |
 | 1857 - 702 pàgines
...another at a distance, through a vacutim, without t he Mediation of any thing eise, by and through wich their action and force may be conveyed from one to...me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who hos in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking kan ever fall into it. Gravity must be... | |
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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,... 
