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,... The Indiana Journal of Medicine - Pàgina 4911874Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pàgines
...Bence Jones, he was fond of quoting the following passage from a letter of Newton to Bentley:— " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 pàgines
...emphatic words testify : " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon ' another at a distance, through a vacuum ' without mediation of anything else by ' and through which their action and ' force may be... | |
| 1862 - 542 pàgines
...emphatic words testify: " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon " another at a distance, through a vacuum " without mediation of anything else by " and through which their action and " force may be... | |
| 1863 - 718 pàgines
...world-supporting elephant. Elsewhere he explicitly rejects the current view as a palpable " absurdity." He says, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and...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... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pàgines
...mechanical force. This must * Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 1855, vol. it, p. 10, etc. t " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may... | |
| 1865 - 648 pàgines
...Newton considered some such medium necessary in the case of gravity. He Bays : " That gravity should bo 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 thoir action and force may be... | |
| Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pàgines
...the Royal Institution, 1856, vol. ii., p. 10, etc. f "That gravity should be innate, inherent,»und essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may... | |
| Paul Janet - 1866 - 216 pàgines
...and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...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... | |
| Paul Janet - 1867 - 214 pàgines
...and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...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... | |
| 1868 - 472 pàgines
...He loved to quote Newton upon this point : over and over again he introduces his memorable words, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...may act upon another at a distance through vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed... | |
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