 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pàgines
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pàgines
...which their action, and force " may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an " absurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philosophical "...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. " Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according " to certain laws." He further says, " In my... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pàgines
...through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philosophical matters,...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 pàgines
...which " their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, " is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who " has, in philosophical...competent faculty of thinking, "can ever fall into." I would therefore appeal, in the language of Newton, to any man who has the competent faculty of thinking,... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 232 pàgines
...through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether that agent be... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 574 pàgines
...through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 pàgines
...action and force may be conveyed from one to 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 must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1904 - 724 pàgines
...and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters...faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 530 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...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constancy according to certain laws." — A'ewton's letter in Benlley's... | |
 | 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."... | |
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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,... 
