 | Myron W. Evans - 2004 - 840 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... | |
 | Ivor Leclerc - 2002 - 392 pàgines
...based upon his acceptance of Henry More's doctrine of extension pertaining 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... | |
 | Michael Wayne - 2005 - 226 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... | |
 | William Stempsey - 2005 - 266 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." 0 But I do not see how the existence of such an ether can render any more intelligible the fact of... | |
 | Nico Stehr, Reiner Grundmann - 2005 - 424 pàgines
...essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance ... 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.' It is interesting to see that Newton condemned here, in anticipation, the bulk of his followers. To... | |
 | Ricardo L. Carezani - 2005 - 322 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 a competent faculty for thinking, can ever fall into it. Le Sage produced the first formal publication of corpuscular gravitational... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2005 - 384 pàgines
...gravity is not "essential and inherent to matter". 26 To believe that it is so is "so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it", 27 according to Newton. Newton ventures on explaining the operation of gravity. Like any other hypotheses... | |
 | Sven Müller - 2006 - 288 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 constantly according to certain Laws; but whether this Agent be material... | |
 | Peter Dear - 2008 - 256 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...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it.1 ! The absurdity was a question of the simple unintelligibility of action at a distance: how could... | |
 | Fabien Chareix - 2006 - 324 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 ever fall into it ». 3. Fontenelle, op. cit. la cause dira que la sphère B tend certainement vers le centre de la sphère... | |
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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,... 
