 | John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pages
...that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Newtoni Opera,... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pages
...that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Neiatoni Opera,... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pages
...that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Newtoni Opera,... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...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...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 652 pages
...body may act upon another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 pages
...one body " may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, with" out the mediation of any thing else, by and through which " their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, "can ever fall into." I would therefore appeal, in the language of Newton, to any man who has the competent faculty of thinking,... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 474 pages
...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 896 pages
...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1843 - 654 pages
...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 and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." This passage... | |
 | 1882 - 662 pages
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can * Published, like the Astronomy, by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. fall into it. Gravity... | |
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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,... 
