 | Alfred Fairhurst - 1913 - 502 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."* Again he writes in his queries: "Qu. 21. Is not this... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 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." It may be remarked that, as Newton happened to mention,... | |
 | J. S. Bromley - 1970 - 992 Seiten
...thinking, can ever fall into it.1 In other words, there must be an explanation of gravity: it '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'.2 Gravity may be due to the action of an 'aether',... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - 1970 - 188 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" (Cohen and Schofield, pp. 302-303). M Principia, General... | |
 | 1855 - 1070 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." See the third letter to Bentley. round masses), and... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1977 - 890 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, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the... | |
 | Arthur Quinn - 1977 - 328 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. Bentley did have a competent enough faculty to consider... | |
 | 1858 - 1152 Seiten
...has i¿ philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can eve fali into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting con,stantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be mate¿ial or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.” Paraday shows, further,... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1982 - 380 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 l have left to the consideration of my readers. Despite Newton's mathematical successes the absence... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen - 1980 - 428 Seiten
...had been published. In 1693, in a letter to Bentley (25 February), Newton said that 'Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial is a question I have left to the consideration of my readers' (Newton, 1959-1977, vol. 3, pp. 253sq;... | |
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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. 
