| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 lapas
...vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may bo conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an...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 James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1870 - 842 lapas
...support of this conclusion he quotes the following passage from Newton's third letter to Bentley : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...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 James Drysdale - 1870 - 152 lapas
...: " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upou 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... | |
| Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 534 lapas
...at 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,...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... | |
| Bence Jones - 1870 - 512 lapas
...force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man wTho has in philosophical matters 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... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 914 lapas
...inherent in it. And this is the reason why I desired you would " not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, " inherent, and essential...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. * On the other hand, by the middle of last century the mathematical naturalists of the Continent,... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 524 lapas
...inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum,...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Accordingly, we find in h:s " Optical Queries," and in his letters to Boyle, that Newton had very... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 516 lapas
...inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum,...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Accordingly, we find in his " Optical Queries," and in his letters to Boyle, that Newton had very... | |
| John Quarry - 1873 - 664 lapas
...else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me BO great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." If, as the physical properties of matter seem plainly to show, there is no actual Hence' the assigning... | |
| John Tyndall - 1873 - 202 lapas
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an- absurdity, that I believe 110 man who lias in philosophical matters 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... | |
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