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 | Thomas Woods (M.D.) - 1860 - 134 pages
...Bentley, " 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...of anything 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1907 - 876 pages
...idea that gravity might be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that one body might attract another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, was an absurdity into which no man having a competent faculty of thinking in philosophical matters... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 528 pages
...abrupt end to enquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...of anything 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... | |
 | James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 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...may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - 576 pages
...abrupt end to enquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, 'To suppose that one body may act upon another at a distance,...a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 1 by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great... | |
 | 1862 - 542 pages
...emphatic words testify: " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon " another at a distance, through a vacuum " without mediation of anything else by " and through which their action and " force may be iconveyed from one... | |
 | Sir George Grove, David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - 1862 - 566 pages
...emphatic words testify : " That gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter," wrote he, "so that one body may act upon ' another at a distance, through a vacuum ' without mediation of anything else by ' and through which their action and ' force may be conveyed from one... | |
 | 1865 - 648 pages
...Newton considered some such medium necessary in the case of gravity. He Bays : " That gravity should bo innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that...the mediation of anything else, by and through which thoir action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pages
...mechanical force. This must * Proceedings of the Royal Institution, 1855, vol. it, p. 10, etc. t " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
 | 1865 - 656 pages
...sun, and in all cases * Newton considered some such medium necessary in the case of gravity. He says: "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the nwdiniion of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to... | |
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