 | Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - Electromagnetic theory - 1870 - 534 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... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - 1870 - 190 pages
...gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, or that one body may act upon another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything...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,... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1870 - 512 pages
...at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man wTho has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
 | John James Drysdale - Force and energy - 1870 - 152 pages
...support of this conclusion he quotes the following passage from Newton's third letter to Bentley : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upou another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | Eduard von Grauvogl - Homeopathy - 1870 - 844 pages
...else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. That gravitv 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... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - Christianity - 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... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - Great Britain - 1871 - 514 pages
.... . . 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...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' Another great... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - Great Britain - 1871 - 514 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 which... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1872 - 210 pages
...loved to quote Newton upon this point : over and over again he introduces his memorable words, ' That i 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... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - Geomagnetism - 1872 - 96 pages
...which action constitutes the propagation of its distant effects ? Surely, in the language of Newton, " that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediat1on of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed... | |
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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,... 
