 | 1756 - Страниц: 704
...aftion and force may be conveyed from one to another, il to me, (fays Sir Ifnac) fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain laws." But fuppofing gravity... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1756 - Страниц: 50
...one one to another, is to me fo great an Abfurdity, that I believe no Man who has in philofophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an Agent acting conftantly according to certain Laws ; but whether this Agent be... | |
 | 1776 - Страниц: 568
...frcm one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man. who has, in philofophic.nl matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an agent aeling "* conftantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - Страниц: 554
...which their adion and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who " has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." See tbeThird of the Four Letters from Sir Ifaac Ntwtsn to Dr. Bently, printed for Mr. Dodjley. ' '.... | |
 | 1858 - Страниц: 620
...vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and ' ' through which their action and force 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - Страниц: 528
...vacuum, without the me" diation of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is " to me so great...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | 1814 - Страниц: 550
...gravity a power innate, inherent, and essential to matter; and in a letter to Dr. Bentley had said, that "gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my readers." This agent and its mode... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 974
...their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, he says, to him a great absurdity. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial he leaves to the consideration of his readers. This is the onward looking... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - Страниц: 706
...without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed u from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - Страниц: 934
...vacuum without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an...constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. " In the next part... | |
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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,... 
