 | Honoré de Balzac - 1896 - 592 Seiten
...has in philosophical, matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." In effect, Newton regarded gravitation not as a primary... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - 1896 - 484 Seiten
...has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers" (3d letter to Bentley, 5th February 1692-93). And in... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1897 - 396 Seiten
...letter to Bentley, he had expressed himself similarly to this effect, averring that " gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." Again, in the Principia, at the conclusion of the... | |
 | 1897 - 840 Seiten
...has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." So keenly were the difficulties of this paradox felt,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 958 Seiten
...has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." Of what that medium may consist, we cannot, of course,... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1898 - 350 Seiten
...has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." f Faraday does not see the same difficulty in his... | |
 | Walter McDonald - 1898 - 480 Seiten
...has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...but, whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."1 For an explanation of the phenomena of gravitation... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1899 - 276 Seiten
...in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." One of the most interesting points in these letters... | |
 | 1901 - 624 Seiten
...has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, cnn ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." Summarily put, this means that the solar system is... | |
 | George Woodward Warder - 1900 - 358 Seiten
...without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation be essential and inherent in it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." Says another scientist of this declaration, " These... | |
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Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. 
