| 1858 - 620 pages
...abrupt end to inquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, ' To sup* pose that one body may act upon another at a 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,... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 pages
...divine power, seems to me apparently absurd. " The last clause of the second position I like very well. It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...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... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why 1 desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me....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... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...the " sense of Epirurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one " reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. " That...and essential to matter, so " that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the " mediation of any thing else, by and through which their... | |
| John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pages
...contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. 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 any thing else, by and through... | |
| 1823 - 832 pages
...according to his opinion, we cannot conceive a body to act where it is not. " That gravity (said he) should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| 1824 - 844 pages
...contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. 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 any thing else, by and through... | |
| 1824 - 878 pages
...mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. 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 any thing else, by and through... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desire you would not ascribe inherent gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent...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... | |
| Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...sense of Epicurus, be essential and " inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you not to " ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should...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,... | |
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