That gravity 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 anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... Four Dissertations - Pągina 40per Richard Price - 1777 - 464 pąginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| 1756 - 704 pągines
...thro' which their aftion and force may be conveyed from one to another, il to me, (fays Sir Ifnac) fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man, who...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain laws." But fuppofing... | |
| Isaac Newton - 1756 - 50 pągines
...Mediation of any thing elfe, by and through which their Aftion and -Force may be conveyed from E1 one one to another, is to me fo great an Abfurdity, that I believe no Man who has in philofophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed... | |
| 1776 - 568 pągines
...the mediation of any thing elie, by and through which their aftion and force m:iy be conveyed frcm one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man. who has, in philofophic.nl matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1792 - 630 pągines
...another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " tiling elfe, by and through which their action and force may " be conveyed from one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdi*' ty, that I believe no man who has, in philofophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1802 - 610 pągines
...Kaims's Eflay on Motion ; by John Stewart, MD .» ' " veyed Sfcft. 2. O* THE HUMAN MIND. 7$ " veyed from one to another, is to me fo great an " abfurdity, that I believe no man who has, in phi" lofophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, " can ever fall into it." With this paflage... | |
| 1858 - 620 pągines
...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 has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 pągines
...another, " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is...an abfurdity, that I believe no man ** who has, in philofophical matters, a competent " faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." With this paflage... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pągines
...another, through a vacuum, without the me" diation of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion 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... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pągines
...their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an ab" surdity, that Ķ believe no man who has, in philosophical matters,...competent faculty of thinking', can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
| John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pągines
...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... | |
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