 | 1862 - 542 lapas
...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... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 480 lapas
...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... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 lapas
...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... | |
 | 1863 - 718 lapas
...without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be convoyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever faU into it." * One of the ablest statements and defenses of this theory may be found in Bowen's "... | |
 | 1865 - 648 lapas
...and in all cases * Newton considered some such medium necessary in the case of gravity. Ho •ays: ''That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." See Newton's Third Letter to Bentley. of ordinary combustion. If we examine the solar spectrum,... | |
 | 1865 - 656 lapas
...matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the nwdiniion of anything else, by and through which their action...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever tdl into it." See Newton's Third Letter to Buntley. of ordinary combustion. If we examine the solar... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 lapas
...that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...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... | |
 | 1865 - 648 lapas
...at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which thoir action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." See Newton's Third Letter to Bentley. of ordinary combustion. If we examine the solar spectrum,... | |
 | 1865 - 530 lapas
...their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." In the laws of gravitation, the motions of the heavenly bodies are proposed as a mechanical problem... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1865 - 530 lapas
...their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." In the laws of gravitation, the motions of the heavenly bodies are proposed as a mechanical problem... | |
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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,... 
