 | James Gracey Murphy - 1873 - 360 pàgines
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu 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... | |
 | 1874 - 1060 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." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at Cambridge,... | |
 | 1874 - 596 pàgines
...be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that Ibelieve that no man who I. as 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... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1875 - 436 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 le caused l>y an agent acting constantly according to certain laws" 3 1 " Does every grain of... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 390 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." Koger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at Cambridge,... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 962 pàgines
...through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to BQ great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at Cambridge,... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1875 - 442 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. Gh'avity must be caused by an agent <icting constantly according to certain laws." 3 1 "Does every... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 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.' Upon this passage the author proceeds to remark : — ' And yet not long after Newton's time the view... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 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...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Neverthe]ess, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to be one of the primary... | |
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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,... 
