 | 1847 - 28 pages
...of something else, which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 526 pages
...first conceived the theory, and verified it by application. " That gravity," says Sir Isaac Newton, " should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 500 pages
...first conceived the theory, and verified it by application. " That gravity," says Sir Isaac Newton, " should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through wlu'ch their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
 | Samuel Elliott Coues - Force and energy - 1851 - 426 pages
...and inherent in it, and this is the reason why I desire that you would not ascribe it to me. It is so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent way of thinking, can ever fall into it." * So even those may dis* On tins subject, Stewart remarks... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 536 pages
...inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pages
...inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action... | |
 | Joseph Devey - Logic - 1854 - 420 pages
...gravity should be innate and essential to matter so that one body should act on another through a vacuum, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has a competent faculty of thinking in philosophical matters can ever fall into it." It does not appear... | |
 | john charles - 1855 - 806 pages
...attraction of distant portions of matter was not a sufficient or satisfactory thought for a philosopher. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...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... | |
 | Michael Faraday - Electricity - 1855 - 620 pages
...rapidly becoming more and more uncertain. In the ordinary view, polarity does not 1 Newton says, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...else, by and through which their action and force may bo conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical... | |
 | Michael Faraday - Electricity - 1855 - 614 pages
...innate, inherent, and essential to matter, BO that one body may act npon another at a distance throngh * vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by...absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matten a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by :m agent acting... | |
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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,... 
