 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 Seiten
...Bentley, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 Seiten
...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,...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... | |
 | 1862 - 794 Seiten
...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..." 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... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 Seiten
...body may act upon another at a distance, ; through 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 an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent i- faculty... | |
 | 1862 - 542 Seiten
...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 to " another, is to me so great an absurdity, " that I believe no man who has in... | |
 | 1863 - 718 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1865 - 530 Seiten
...; 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... | |
 | 1865 - 656 Seiten
...matter, so that one body may act upon 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 another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 Seiten
...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, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
 | Paul Janet - 1866 - 216 Seiten
...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...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... | |
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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,... 
