| 1858 - 620 páginas
...abrupt end to inquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, ' To sup* pose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...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... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 páginas
...you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a...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... | |
| John Playfair - 1822 - 464 páginas
...in it. 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...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... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 páginas
...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 ab" surdity, that Í believe no man who has, in philosophical matters, a " competent faculty of thinking',... | |
| 1823 - 832 páginas
...body to act where it is not. " That gravity (said he) 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 something else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| 1824 - 844 páginas
...in it. 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...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... | |
| 1824 - 878 páginas
...in it. 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...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... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 páginas
...would not ascribe inherent gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a...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... | |
| Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 páginas
...not to " ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, " inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon " another at...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... | |
| Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 652 páginas
...one reason, why I desired, you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, so that one body may act upon another, at a distance,...a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can... | |
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