 | Industrial arts - 1855 - 712 pages
...bodies themselves. And we cannot help contending that, if it be absurd and unpliilosophical to suppose " that gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else," then it is absurd and unphilosophical to suppose two bodies or two particles ever can attract each... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1855 - 640 pages
...bodies themselves. And we cannot help contending that, if it be absurd and unphilosophical to suppose " that gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else," then it is absurd and unphilosophical to suppose two bodies or two particles ever can attract each... | |
 | Technology - 1855 - 708 pages
...lliat, if it be absurd and unphilosophical to suppose " that gravity should be innate, inherent, aud essential to matter, so that one body may act upon...a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else," then it is absurd and unphilosophical to suppose two bodies or two particles ever can attract each... | |
 | Francis Bowen - History - 1855 - 512 pages
...first conceived the theory, and verified it by application. " That gravity," says Sir Isaac Newton, "-should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...body may act upon another at a distance through a ractntm, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1855 - 614 pages
...matter was not a sufficient or satisfactory thought for a philosopher. That gravity should be innato, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at я distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1856 - 428 pages
...attraction of different portions of matter was not a sufficient or satisfactory thought for the philosopher. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...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,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1856 - 430 pages
...attraction of different portions of matter was not a sufficient or satisfactory thought for the philosopher. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...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,... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1856 - 426 pages
...of matter was not a sufficient or satisfactory thought for the philosopher. That gravity should bo innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that...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,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Evidence - 1856 - 560 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... | |
 | Chemistry - 1857 - 796 pages
...enables a body to take up and * Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 1855, Vol. ii., p. 10, &c. t " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...body may act upon another at a distance, through a cacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be... | |
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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,... 
