 It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and...  Report of the ... Meeting - Pàgina 28per ANZAAS (Association) - 1890Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pàgines
...at a distance from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceiv" able," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, " without the...of something else which is not " material, operate upon, and aflect other matter, without " mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the " sense... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pàgines
...worth the while to alter your numbers. " In " The last clause of the second position I like very well. It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 464 pàgines
...inherent in matter. The following passage, in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley, is still more explicit: " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...something else, •which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact,- as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pàgines
...should, without the mediation of " something else which is not material, operate upon, and effüct other " matter, without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the " sense of Epirurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one " reason why I desired that you would not... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pàgines
...inherent in matter. The following passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pàgines
...inherent in matter. The following passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit: " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pàgines
...know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it." And in the third letter he remarks — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...of something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pàgines
...sometimes speak of gravity as essential " and inherent to matter. Fray do not ascribe that notion to me. " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...of something else, which is not material, operate " upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must " do, if gravitation, in the sense... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pàgines
...placed at a distance from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter, without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 pàgines
...third letter to Bentley was dated 1693. In that letter, Sir Isaac says, — " it is incon" ceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the "mediation of something else, which is not material, ope" rate upon and affect other matter, without mutual contact, "as it must do, if gravitation be essential... | |
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