 | 1883 - 572 pàgines
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To a friend he wrote : " It is inconceivable that innate brute matter should without the mediation... | |
 | François Rothen - 1999 - 898 pàgines
...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». Citation tirée de A Journey into Gravity and Spacetime, JA Wheeler, Scientific American Library, 1989.... | |
 | Thomas Vargish, Delo E. Mook - 1999 - 228 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.7 But in the minds of his successors, any misgivings about innate gravity were overwhelmed by the... | |
 | Alan A. Grometstein - 1999 - 620 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, could ever fall into it.19 Physicists addressing Maxwell's equations did not challenge these features... | |
 | Max Jammer - 1999 - 290 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 thinhing, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to... | |
 | Dirk Evers - 2000 - 464 pàgines
...through which their action or 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... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 pàgines
...Gravity to me. . . . 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. (Thayer and Randall, 1953, p. 54) It is in Book III of the Principia that he gave an account of the... | |
 | Peter Poellner - 2000 - 340 pàgines
...through which that 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.41 But it is George Berkeley's essay 'On Motion' which provides the philosophical locus classicus... | |
 | Peter J. Tamburro - 2016 - 598 pàgines
...conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an Absurdity, that I believe no NEWTON S HYPOTHESES Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.12 Did Newton mean that, after all, gravity was a direct mechanical effect produced by the action... | |
 | Colin P. Williams, Scott H. Clearwater - 1999 - 276 pàgines
...distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else . . . 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. Nor did the prediction of quantum theory sit well with Albert Einstein,... | |
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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,... 
