 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,...  Notices of the Proceedings - Page 237by Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1854Full view - About this book
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 934 pages
...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...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. " In the next part of your Letter you lay down four other positions founded upon the six first. The... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." * " The immense void betwixt the celestial bodies has with great impropriety been determined an absolute... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 662 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." It is evident, then, that he considered gravity to be an effect. It is also evident, that in the second... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 580 pages
...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...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity alone, you confirm by three... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1838 - 572 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ho man, who has in philosophical matters a competent...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity alone, you confirm by three... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1904 - 724 pages
...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." If the action of the sun on the earth were a pulling or attracting action, then, unless it were perfectly... | |
 | Christianity - 1882 - 662 pages
...Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting according to certain laws ; but whether this agent...immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." ' Although he thus left it to the consideration of his readers, it is evident that Newton's own opinion... | |
 | Michael Faraday - Electricity - 1855 - 620 pages
...believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." See the third letter to Bentley. necessarily touch much upon the idea of lines of physical force ;... | |
 | Michael Faraday - Electricity - 1855 - 632 pages
...in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into. Gravity must be cnused by an agent acting constantly according to certain...immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." See the third letter to Bentlev. necessarily touch much upon the idea of lines of physical force ;... | |
 | Michael Faraday - Electricity - 1855 - 614 pages
...philosophical matten a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by :m agent acting constantly according to certain laws...or immaterial I have left to the consideration of mj readers." See the third letter to Bentley. necessarily touch much upon the idea of lines of physical... | |
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