 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - Science - 1865 - 530 pages
...; for, in his third letter to Bentley, Newton explicitly states that " the idea of one body acting upon another at a distance through a, vacuum, without...through which their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - Force and energy - 1865 - 512 pages
...the Royal Institution, 1856, vol. ii., p. 10, etc. f "That gravity should be innate, inherent,»und essential to matter, so that one body may act upon...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... | |
 | Natural history - 1865 - 530 pages
...; for, in his third letter to Bentley, Newton explicitly states that " the idea of one body acting upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, ]jy and through which their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an... | |
 | John Tyndall - Physicists - 1868 - 192 pages
...He loved to quote Newton upon this point : over and over again he introduces his memorable words, ' That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed... | |
 | Geology - 1868 - 472 pages
...He loved to quote Newton upon this point : over and over again he introduces his memorable words, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...one body may act upon another at a distance through vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1868 - 526 pages
...1855, voL ii., p. 10, etc. f " That gravity should be inna'le, inherent, and essential to matter, s« 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 force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1868 - 346 pages
...Ho loved to quote Sfewton upon this point : over and over again he introduces his memorable words, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body mny act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1869 - 646 pages
...itself. He loved to quote Newton upon this point : over and over again he introduces his memorable words, "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - Science - 1869 - 636 pages
...Newton upon this point : over and over agaiq he introduces his memorable words, " That gravity should bo innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that...may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may bo conveyed... | |
 | American Medical Association - Electronic journals - 1870 - 706 pages
...matter, so thatone body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation by and through which their action and force may be...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who, in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." A great leader... | |
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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,... 
