 | Walter McDonald - 1898 - 480 pàgines
...Not to mention the essential absurdity of the concept, which forced Newton to express his belief that "no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, could ever fall into it." It is for physicists to decide whether it be really true that gravitation... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 340 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." 2 Yet the opposite belief has sometimes been ascribed to Newton. The doctrine of action at a distance... | |
 | Florian Cajori - 1899 - 352 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." 2 Yet the opposite belief has sometimes been ascribed to Newton. The doctrine of action at a distance... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1899 - 276 pàgines
...topic, and speaks more decidedly. The notion of gravity being inherent to matter " is to me," he says, " so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting... | |
 | 1897 - 954 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...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." But experience... | |
 | 1901 - 624 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,...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, cnn ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
 | Charles Marsh Mead - 1905 - 404 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...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.1 This is high authority ; and Newton is only one of many who have laid it down as a kind of physical... | |
 | 1921 - 970 pàgines
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into." No doubt Newton would have been sadly shocked if he could have known that before the end of the eighteenth... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1907 - 482 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 iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused... | |
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 516 pàgines
...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great...I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly... | |
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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,... 
