| Mathematics - 1857 - 702 pages
...habe, und über den er sich in seinem dritten Briefe an Bentley folgendermassen ausgesprochen : „Thal gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to...body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacutim, without t he Mediation of any thing eise, by and through wich their action and force may be... | |
| Mathematics - 1857 - 674 pages
...bereitet habe, und über den er sich in seinem dritten Briefe an Bentley folgendermassen ausgesprochen : „That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distnnce, through a vacuum, icithout the mediation of any thing eise , by and through wich their action... | |
| Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1857 - 644 pages
...has the like strict relation « Proceedings of His Royal Institution, 1855, vol. ii., p. 10, Sie. t " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...matter, so that one body may act upon another, at л distance, through a rncrtuiít, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their... | |
| Technology - 1857 - 664 pages
...Institution, 1855, vol. ii., p. 10, &c. t " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential tu matter, so that one body may act upon another, at...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be COD- " veytd from one to another,... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1858 - 638 pages
...abrupt end to inquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying : " To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and i'orce may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1858 - 666 pages
...something else, which is not material, operate upon 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... | |
| Henri Édouard Schedel - Faith - 1858 - 508 pages
...something else which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter, without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that a body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else,... | |
| Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - Heat - 1859 - 658 pages
...pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider." (Page 20.) He adds, in another letter: "That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...so that one body may act upon another at a distance * The same idea was advanced about 2000 years ago by Plato, who observes in the Timseus, that "it is... | |
| Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - 1859 - 670 pages
...therefore would take more time to consider." (Page 20.) He adds, in another letter: "That gravitjshould be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance * The same idea was advanced about 2000 years ago by Plato, who observes in the Timseus, that "it is... | |
| Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 pages
...would be " in direct opposition to it ;"* and Sir I. Newton says in his third letter to Bentley, " 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... | |
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