 | 1874 - 1060 lapas
...wrote in this wise : " That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that oue body may act upon another at a distance, through a...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at... | |
 | 1874 - 596 lapas
...be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that Ibelieve that no man who I. as 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... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 390 lapas
...merits of the plenum and the vacuum. Newton in his third letter to Bentley wrote in this wise : — "That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Koger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 lapas
...Forces. The author quotes the following explicit statement from Newton's Third Letter to Benlley : — 'That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' Upon this passage the author proceeds to remark : — ' And yet not long after Newton's time the... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 392 lapas
...merits of the plenum and the vacuum. Newton in his third letter to Bentley wrote in this wise : — "That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 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... | |
 | George Henry Lewes - 1875 - 500 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." Neverthe]ess, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to be one of the... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 962 lapas
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to BQ great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 588 lapas
...by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so forçat an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Accordingly, wo find in his ' Optical Queries,' and in his letters to Boyle, that Newton had very... | |
 | 1875 - 244 lapas
...into being, existed potentially somewhere ; for ex nihiio nihil fit is a maxim, the validity of which no man, who has in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever doubt. The question is not of the existence of a power, adequate to produce all visible effects ; but... | |
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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,... 
