 | B. F. Cocker - 1875 - 436 pages
...not affirm this."2 On the contrary, he earnestly rejects any such hypothesis. " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential to and inherent in matter. . .... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 390 pages
...merits of the plenum and the vacuum. Newton in his third letter to Bentley wrote in this wise : — "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... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 962 pages
...merits of the plenum and the vacuum. Newton in his third letter to Bentley wrote in this wise : — "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... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 pages
...Forces. The author quotes the following explicit statement from Newton's Third Letter to Benlley : — '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 Thompson Bixby - 1876 - 254 pages
...of gravitation answer. " It is inconceivable," says Newton, in a celebrated passage of his letter to Bentley, " that inanimate brute matter should, without...and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their... | |
 | 1876 - 592 pages
...to leave at least one master of the field. However, Newton himself emphatically repudiated the idea that ' inanimate brute matter should, without the...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact : as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in- it.' And whilst... | |
 | 1876 - 590 pages
...to leave at least one master of the field. However, Newton himself emphatically repudiated the idea that ' inanimate brute matter should, without the...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact : as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.' And whilst... | |
 | 1883 - 648 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... | |
 | 1876 - 814 pages
...Bence Jones, he was fond of quoting the following passage from a letter of Newton to Bentley: — " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | Edward Vogel - 1877 - 54 pages
...inconsistent with what Sir Isaac Newton writes in his third letter to Bentley: "It is inconceivable, he says, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus... | |
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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... 
