 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 500 pàgines
...wlu'ch 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." I have detained you too long,... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1849 - 526 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." I have detained you too long,... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - 1851 - 340 pàgines
...and this is the reason why I desire that you would not ascribe it to me. It is so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent way of thinking, can ever fall into it." * So even those may dis* On this subject, Stewart remarks... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 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... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1855 - 620 pàgines
...through which their action and force may bo 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. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1855 - 512 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 fell into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws." Gravity... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1894 - 552 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." Thus Newton, in giving out his great, law, did not abandon the idea that matter cannot act where it... | |
 | 1857 - 796 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 mast be caused by an agent, acting constantly acording to certain laws; but whether thisngent be material... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1857 - 644 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... | |
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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,... 
