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 | Walter McDonald - 1898 - 480 pages
...communicated. "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 may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 958 pages
...me. 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, is to me so great... | |
 | Morris Berman - 1981 - 364 pages
...admission: 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, is to me so great... | |
 | Z. Bechler - 1982 - 264 pages
...without mutual contact . . .' Further, that 'gravity' is of such a nature that 'one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else by & through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great an absurdity... | |
 | G.M. Hagen, Fred Wenstop - 1984 - 302 pages
...letter to Bentley (Dugas, 1951*, p. ^33 ; and Whitthaker, 1951, p. 28) : "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 is to me so great an... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1985 - 270 pages
...divine Richard Bentley, Newton expressed the limitations of his success: 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, is to me so great... | |
 | Paul B. Scheurer, G. Debrock - 1988 - 406 pages
...repugnance to a force which would act at-a-distance through empty space, "so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else. But whether the "agent" causing gravity "be material or immaterial." Newton "left to the consideration... | |
 | Marcia Sweet Stayer - 1988 - 152 pages
...statements - a letter to Richard Bentley, DD, on 25 February 1693 - Newton said: That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else ... is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters any competent... | |
 | Frank Wilczek, Betsy Devine - 1989 - 388 pages
...dogmatism; in response to criticism from Leibniz, he was even driven to write, [T]hat 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, is to me so great... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1990 - 365 pages
...t "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, is to me so great... | |
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