 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1874 - 532 pàgines
...of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Or, if more modern... | |
 | 1874 - 800 pàgines
...of any thing else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The thesis of... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 406 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...great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philol sophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotea, who was... | |
 | 1875 - 244 pàgines
...into being, existed potentially somewhere ; for ex nihiio nihil fit is a maxim, the validity of which no man, who has in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever doubt. The question is not of the existence of a power, adequate to produce all visible effects ; but... | |
 | 1875 - 1004 pàgines
...mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent (acuity of thinking, can ever fall into it." " Before«we... | |
 | Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) - 1876 - 568 pàgines
...That one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the medium of anything else by and through which their action and force may...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it." This assertion has been severely criticised. Still the reasoning on which Newton bases... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1876 - 530 pàgines
...through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force mp.y be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who in philosophical matters has a 'competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Accordingly... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pàgines
...Sage's mechanical theory of gravitation be the true theory or not, yet, to use the words of Newton, ' no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,' can ever fall into the absurdity that gravity is ' innate, inherent, and essential to matter.' The history of the science... | |
 | 1876 - 592 pàgines
...mechanical theory of gravitation be the true theory or not, yet, to use the words of Newton,' * nt> man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,' can ever fall into the absurdity that gravity is ' innate, inherent, and essential to matter.' The history of the science... | |
 | Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 422 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...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity must be caused... | |
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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,... 
