 | 1875 - 244 pàgines
...into being, existed potentially somewhere ; for ex nihiio nihil fit is a maxim, the validity of which no man, who has in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever doubt. The question is not of the existence of a power, adequate to produce all visible effects ; but... | |
 | 1876 - 814 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... | |
 | 1883 - 648 pàgines
...and through which their action may be conveyed through 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 ". This is explicit enough. The constant efforts of men of science since Newton's day to account for... | |
 | Bernhard Riemann - 1876 - 537 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." See the third letter to Bentley, demselben beigelegt werden muss ; und durch dm bezeichnet werden soll.... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1876 - 346 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 view, however, which Newton thus condemns, is not that gravity is physically immediate and ultimate,... | |
 | Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) - 1876 - 568 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 fall into it." This assertion has been severely criticised. Still the reasoning on which Newton bases... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pàgines
...Sage's mechanical theory of gravitation be the true theory or not, yet, to use the words of Newton, ' no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,' can ever fall into the absurdity that gravity is ' innate, inherent, and essential to matter.' The history of the science... | |
 | 1876 - 592 pàgines
...mechanical theory of gravitation be the true theory or not, yet, to use the words of Newton,' * nt> man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,' can ever fall into the absurdity that gravity is ' innate, inherent, and essential to matter.' The history of the science... | |
 | Amyclanus (pseud.) - 1876 - 358 pàgines
...may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man that has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it."* I need not dwell longer on the proof of there being a connecting medium between the sun and its attendant... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - 534 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... | |
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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,... 
