 ... else, by and through which their 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. Gravity must be caused...  Experimental Researches in Electricity - Page 528by Michael Faraday - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Newton - 1756 - 50 pages
...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 material or immaterial, I have left to the Confideration of my Readers, Your fourth Affertion, that the World could not be formed by innate Gravity... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1814 - 550 pages
...inherent, and essential to matter; and in a letter to Dr. Bentley had said, that "gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain...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... | |
 | 1856 - 482 pages
...may be conveyed from one to another, is, he says, to him a great absurdity. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain...; 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
...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain...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
...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain...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 - 1829 - 652 pages
...believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain...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
...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain...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 - 1842 - 896 pages
...philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. 70 arguments. But, in your first... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 474 pages
...philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the... | |
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