 | Julian Seymour Schwinger - 2002 - 274 pàgines
...vacuum and without the mediation of anything else ... 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 it." Having been influenced by this passage (Newton's letters to Bentley were published in 1756), Faraday... | |
 | Yurij Baryshev, Pekka Teerikorpi - 2002 - 412 pàgines
...may be conveyed from one to another. is to me so great an Absurdity, that I beliere no Man who has m philosophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muit be, caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain Laws; but whether this Agent be... | |
 | Brian Greene - 2010 - 464 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 material... | |
 | Lisa M. Dolling, Arthur F. Gianelli, Glenn N. Statile - 2003 - 762 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." Accordingly, we find in his Optical Queries, and in his letters to Boyle, that Newton had very early... | |
 | I.J.R. Aitchison, A.J.G. Hey - 2002 - 428 pàgines
...through which 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 in philosophical matters...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. (Letter from Newton to Bentley) Newton could find no satisfactory mechanism or physical model, for... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - 2003 - 352 pàgines
...rejected the notion of gravity acting through a vacuum, writing that the idea was "so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it" (Newton 1953, 54). [SS] Notes to §§83-88 64. Correspondence is defined in §71 above; see also §52... | |
 | Denis Alexander - 2003 - 518 pàgines
...That Gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to Matter... 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.' There is little doubt that the introduction of mechanical ways of thinking into the minds of natural... | |
 | Trevor Palmer - 2003 - 560 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'.29 It should not be forgotten that, for many centuries, the Church had maintained and controlled... | |
 | Timothy Ferris - 2010 - 516 pàgines
...it "absurd." Newton agreed, calling the idea of gravity acting at a distance "so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it,"1* and conceding that he had no solution to the riddle: "The Cause of Gravity is what I do not... | |
 | I.J.R. Aitchison, A.J.G. Hey - 2002 - 428 pàgines
...which action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man who has in philosophical matters a...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. (Letter from Newton to Bentley) Newton could find no satisfactory mechanism or physical model, for... | |
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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,... 
