 | Sir Joseph Larmor - 632 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...absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical * On the other hand, by the middle of last century the mathematical naturalists of the Continent, after... | |
 | 1924 - 764 pàgines
...body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else ... is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." In' his "Opticks" (Queries, 18, 22) Newton postulated the existence of an ether. In this century a... | |
 | J. S. Bromley - 1970 - 992 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 it.1 In other words, there must be an explanation of gravity: it 'must be caused by an agent acting... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1977 - 890 pàgines
...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
 | 1858 - 1152 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 has i¿ philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can eve fali into it. Gravity must be caused... | |
 | Imre Lakatos - 1980 - 262 pàgines
...that one Body may act upon another at a Distance thro' a Vacuum, without the Mediation of any thing else, by and through which their Action and Force...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.1 Newton went to immense trouble to convince his admirers not to ignore Cartesian criticism. Indeed,... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1980 - 428 pàgines
...distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else by or through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another is to me...I believe no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it' (Newton, 1958, pp. 302sq). In the context... | |
 | Z. Bechler - 1982 - 264 pàgines
...distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else by & through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another is to me...I believe no man who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it'. He concluded: Gravity must be caused by an... | |
 | W. R. Shea - 1983 - 346 pàgines
...by and through which their Action and Force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great Absurdity, that I believe no Man who has in philosophical...competent Faculty of Thinking, can ever fall into it".3 This expression, cited so often, is by no means an accidental delusion of Newton. Newton occupied... | |
 | G.M. Hagen, Fred Wenstop - 1984 - 302 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...so great an Absurdity , that I believe no man who have in philosophical matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it". What one calls... | |
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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,... 
