 ... 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...  Faraday as a Discoverer - Page 68by John Tyndall - 1868 - 171 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1756 - 704 pages
...may be conveyed from one to another, il to me, (fays Sir Ifnac) fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent...faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according ยป' to certain laws." But fuppofing gravity... | |
 | Isaac Newton - 1756 - 50 pages
...one one to another, is to me fo great an Abfurdity, that I believe no Man who has in philofophical Matters a competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an Agent acting conftantly according to certain Laws ; but whether this Agent be... | |
 | 1760 - 556 pages
...opinion is againft me. Sir Ifaac Newton fays, " Gravity muft be " caufed by an agent, a&ing contrary, according to certain " laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, " I have left to the confideration of my Readers." Here Sir Ifaac plainly allows, that matter is an agent, and a6b ; but... | |
 | 1776 - 568 pages
...frcm one to another, is to me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man. who has, in philofophic.nl matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an agent aeling "* conftantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 554 pages
...adion and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who " has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." See tbeThird of the Four Letters from Sir Ifaac Ntwtsn to Dr. Bently, printed for Mr. Dodjley. ' '.... | |
 | 1858 - 620 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from ' one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe ' no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty ' of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind, is enforced... | |
 | 1814 - 550 pages
...gravity a power innate, inherent, and essential to matter; and in a letter to Dr. Bentley had said, that "gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my readers." This agent and its mode of action it is the object of Colden's... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is " to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who " has, in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive in what manner one... | |
 | 1856 - 974 pages
...their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, he says, to him a great absurdity. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly...; but whether this agent be material or immaterial he leaves to the consideration of his readers. This is the onward looking thought of one, who by his... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent...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... | |
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