| James Thompson Bixby - 1876 - 254 Seiten
...matter, so that one body may act upon another through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which 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 in philosophical matters has a... | |
| Edward Vogel - 1877 - 54 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... | |
| Royal Philosophical Society of Glasgow - 1877 - 492 Seiten
...own words : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum,...else, by and through which their action and force can be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - 534 Seiten
...inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacunm, without the mediation of anything else, by and through...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... | |
| Alexander Winchell - 1877 - 422 Seiten
...that one body may act on 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, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty... | |
| Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 Seiten
...I do not pretend to know." Many of them will not refuse assent even to his much stronger statement: "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... | |
| Robert Flint - 1879 - 600 Seiten
...do not pretend to know." Many of them will not refuse assent even to his much stronger statement : " 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... | |
| Edmund Beckett (1st baron Grimthorpe.) - 1879 - 124 Seiten
...why I desired you would not ascribe that ' notion to me. That gravity should be innate, in' herent, and essential to matter, so that one body may ' act...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... | |
| Thomas Harper - 1884 - 444 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...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... | |
| John Quarry - 1880 - 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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