| Paul Janet - 1867 - 214 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... | |
| 1874 - 802 Seiten
...merits of the plenum and the vacuum. Newton in his third letter to Bentley wrote in this wise: — "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... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 944 Seiten
...Bernoulli's idea of Newtonianism, for in his letter to Bentley to date February 25, I792,3 he wrote: "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... | |
| John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1870 - 842 Seiten
...support of this conclusion he quotes the following passage from Newton's third letter to Bentley : " 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... | |
| John James Drysdale - 1870 - 152 Seiten
...: " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upou 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... | |
| Eduard von Grauvogl - 1870 - 844 Seiten
...contact. That gravitv should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without...and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, to me, so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who, in philosophical matters, has a competent... | |
| Thomas Doubleday - 1870 - 190 Seiten
...gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, or that one body may act upon another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything...their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has, in philosophical matters,... | |
| American Medical Association - 1870 - 706 Seiten
...matter, so thatone body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation 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, in philosophical matters has a competent faculty... | |
| Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 514 Seiten
.... . . 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 in philosophical matters has a competent faculty... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 914 Seiten
...inherent in it. And this is the 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... | |
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