 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 512 pages
...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great...I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly... | |
 | Carl Snyder - 1907 - 520 pages
...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another is to me so great...absurdity that I believe no man, who has in philosophical tnatters competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting... | |
 | Denton Jaques Snider - 1909 - 588 pages
...may act upon another at a distance, though a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else . . . . is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man" of competent judgment ever fell into it. This was probably Newton's dominating view, though in other... | |
 | Sir John Ambrose Fleming - 1910 - 956 pages
...another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else by which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has a competent faculty of thinking in physical matters can ever fall into it." The propagation of light... | |
 | Robert Mark Wenley - 1910 - 326 pages
...of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in matters philosophical a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1911 - 621 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...absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical * On the other hand, by the middle of last century the mathematical naturalists of the Continent, after... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin, Joseph Larmor, James Prescott Joule - 1911 - 628 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...absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical * On the other hand, by the middle of last century the mathematical naturalists of the Continent, after... | |
 | 1851 - 702 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 may...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who lias in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must... | |
 | Sir John Ambrose Fleming - 1916 - 956 pages
...another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else by which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has a competent faculty of thinking in physical matters can ever fall into it." The propagation of light... | |
 | Frank Channing Haddock - 1920 - 104 pages
...matter, so that one body may act upon another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." And Dugald Stewart, commenting upon these words, remarked: "The same train of thinking, which had led... | |
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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,... 
