 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,...  Self Culture - Page 6801895Full view - About this book
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1868 - 526 pages
...thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, ean ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly aecording to certain laws... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ta no man who 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 ;... | |
 | John James Drysdale - 1870 - 152 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has...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 ;... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1870 - 842 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has...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;... | |
 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 534 pages
...anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has...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 ;... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - 1870 - 190 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has, in philosophical matters, competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To this remark of Sir Isaac Newton it is proper... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1870 - 546 pages
...approbation the words of Newton, "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, is so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it" (p. 368). "The 'force of... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 914 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force " may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an " absurdity, that I believe no man who...philosophical " matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. * On the other hand, by the middle of last century the mathematical naturalists... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1872 - 96 pages
...anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of think1ng can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly, according to... | |
 | Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 516 pages
...anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Accordingly, we find in his " Optical Queries," and in his letters to Boyle, that... | |
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