 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1857 - 644 lapas
...is shared with him by the immortal Newton, when he says, "That gravity should be innate, internal, and essential to matter, so that one body may act...a 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... | |
 | 1857 - 796 lapas
...inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a cacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity mast be caused by an agent, acting constantly acording to certain laws; but whether thisngent... | |
 | 1858 - 448 lapas
...ii., p. 10, etc. t " That gravity should De innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one f body may act upon another at a distance, through a...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... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1858 - 638 lapas
...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 lapas
...Timseus, that "it is impossible for two things alone to cohere, without the intervention of a third." through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything...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... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 lapas
...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... | |
 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 lapas
...Bentley, " 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 the...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... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 lapas
...abrupt end to enquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...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... | |
 | 1862 - 794 lapas
...matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon " another at a distance, through a vacuum " without mediation of anything else by " and through which...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... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 lapas
...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this 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... | |
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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,... 
