 | 1858 - 448 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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - 638 pàgines
...through which their action and i'orce 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." The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind, is enforced... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 658 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." (Third letter to Bentley, page 26.) It was truly observed by Bacon, that "the doctrines of great and... | |
 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 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... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pàgines
...through which this 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 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.' The conviction which his conception of gravity thus impressed on Newton's mind, is enforced upon us... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pàgines
...their action and " force may be iconveyed 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." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest star whose beams... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 pàgines
...dictum of " common-sense :" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose "absurdity is so great that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it!"* And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition — that matter is capable... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 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 i- faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction ii which his conception of gravity thus... | |
 | 1863 - 718 pàgines
...through which their action and force may be convoyed 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 faU into it." * One of the ablest statements and defenses of this theory may be found in Bowen's "... | |
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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,... 
