 | 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...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 be conveyed... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 pàgines
...abrupt end to enquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 1 by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great... | |
 | 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 iconveyed from one... | |
 | 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 conveyed from one... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 480 pàgines
...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another is to me eo great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty... | |
 | 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 essential...by and 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... | |
 | 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...the mediation of anything else, by and through which thoir action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe... | |
 | 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...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
 | 1865 - 656 pàgines
...sun, and in all cases * Newton considered some such medium necessary in the case of gravity. He says: "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the nwdiniion of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1865 - 530 pàgines
...; for, in his third letter to Bentley, Newton explicitly states that " the idea of one body acting upon another at a distance through a, vacuum, without...through which their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters... | |
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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 any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... 
