...essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe this notion to me; for the Cause of Gravity is what 1 do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider it" (quoted by Harre [1964, 107]). Looking for the "Cause of Gravity" is precisely what Comte would...

...Bentley (January 1693) he wrote : You sometimes speak of Gravity as essential and inherent to Matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me ; for the Cause...therefore would take more Time to consider of it. And in a further letter he added : That Gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to Matter, so that...

...as we have seen, urged caution: You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause...know and therefore would take more time to consider it. (Thayer, 1953, p. 53) John Locke (1632-1704), the philosopher and self-styled "underlabourer" in...

...sein, der an Bentley schreibt: „You sometimes speak of Gravity as essential and inherent to Matter. Pray do not ascribe that Notion to me; for the Cause...and therefore would take more Time to consider of it."120 „Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according to certain Laws; but whether...

...zwischen Rauminhalt und Raumform 9 „You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me; for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know ..." (Newton an Dr. Bentley, Cambridge, Trinity College, „Jan. 17, 1692-3", in: Newton 1964, S. 437.)...

...of January 17, 1693, 'You some times speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray, do ascribe that notion to me; for the cause of gravity...therefore would take more time to consider of it,' Alexandre Koyre, 'Newtonian Studies' (London, 1965) p. 163, remarks that by ignoring Newton's distinction...

..."You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to Matter," he once wrote to a colleague. "Pray do not ascribe that Notion to me; for the Cause of Gravity is what I do not pretend to know."24 Newton, in fact, was a mystic, a loyal Anglican, and a believer in an all-powerful, unpredictable...

...Newton himself had been disappointed by the descriptive nature of his theory of universal gravitation: "The Cause of Gravity is what I do not pretend to know," he wrote sullenly. For Einstein too it was not enough to know how that apple falls from the tree. He...

...enero de 1693, Newton escribe: "You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me; for the cause...pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consideren of it" (Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley; Containing some Arguments...

...gravity was an active principle inherent in matter itself. In one of his private letters, Newton pleads: "Pray, do not ascribe that notion to me; for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know."7 In the second edition he emphasized that he does not "affirm gravity to be essential to bodies:...