| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - 638 pągines
...through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and i'orce may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind, is enforced... | |
| Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 658 pągines
...intervention of a third." through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." (Third letter to Bentley, page 26.) It was truly observed by Bacon, that "the doctrines of great and... | |
| Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pągines
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is Jo me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." (Third letter to Bentley, page 26.) It was truly observed by Bacon, that " the doctrines of great and... | |
| Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 pągines
...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,...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pągines
...one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent... | |
| Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 pągines
...another at a distance, through a vacuum ' without mediation of anything else by ' and through which their action and ' force may be conveyed from one to ' another,...competent " faculty of thinking, can ever fall into " it." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest star whose beams... | |
| Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 pągines
...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,...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity thus impressed on Newton's mind, is enforced upon us... | |
| 1862 - 542 pągines
...without mediation of anything else by " and through which their action and " force may be iconveyed from one to " another, is to me so great an absurdity,...competent " faculty of thinking, can ever fall into " it." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest star whose beams... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 480 pągines
...anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another is to me eo great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has,...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
| Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 pągines
...dictum of " common-sense :" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose "absurdity is so great that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it!"* And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition — that matter is capable... | |
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