 | 1883 - 644 pages
...disclaimer against taking the law for a qualitative fact. In a letter to Bentley, Newton writes:—"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... | |
 | George Gabriel Stokes - 1884 - 156 pages
...to Bentley, quoted by Faraday as falling in with his own views, Newton thus expressed himself : — "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 their action... | |
 | Augustine Joseph Hickey Duganne - 1884 - 230 pages
...some medium of influence— some substance in contact with substance. Writing to Bentley, he said — "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vaeuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | Thomas Harper - 1884 - 446 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 mayact on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and... | |
 | Michael Faraday - 1990 - 365 pages
...when they are so applied by the tan* Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 1855, vol. ii. p. 10, &c. 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... | |
 | Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - 1993 - 458 pages
...149, note. ' Newton was not so laconic. Here is what he said, in the same sense to tell the truth: "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum ... is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man... | |
 | Harold M. Edwards - 1994 - 532 pages
...Poisson's equation is satisfied, then u can be determined from p by (3) u(x,y,z) = 7P«, r,, f ) V(x f )2 *"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... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 1994 - 312 pages
...the mechanism of its action. His letter of 1693 to his supporter Bentley illustrates this hesitancy: That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance in a vacuum without the mediation of anything else by and through which... | |
 | Sunny Y. Auyang - 1995 - 289 pages
...essays in Knuuttila and Hintikka (1986). 184. Kant (1781), A598/B626, A600f/B628f. 185. Newton said: "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... | |
 | James Clerk Maxwell - 1990 - 1068 pages
...contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus be essential and Newton inherent in it That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at distance though a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
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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... 
