 | 1814 - 550 páginas
...gravity a power innate, inherent, and essential to matter; and in a letter to Dr. Bentley had said, that "gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my readers." This... | |
 | 1856 - 974 páginas
...their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is, he says, to him a great absurdity. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial he leaves to the consideration of his readers. This... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 páginas
...in it. And this is one reason why 1 desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. "... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 páginas
...may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,...agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 páginas
...in it. And this is one reason why I desired you not to " ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, " inherent, and essential to matter,...Agent acting constantly according " to certain laws." He further says, " In my former letter, I represented, that the " diurnal rotations of the planets... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 662 páginas
...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...agent, acting constantly according to certain laws. But whether this agent be material, or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers."... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 514 páginas
...in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate Gravity to me. That Gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to Matter,...agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether that agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers."... | |
 | John BRINKLEY (Bishop of Cloyne.) - 1836 - 334 páginas
...distance. 336. Of the immediate cause of gravitation, he confesses himself ignorant. He says,* that gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws : but whether Ihis agent be material or immaterial, he did not attempt to decide. He reflected much... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 574 páginas
...in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 páginas
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ho man, who has in philosophical matters a competent...agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers.... | |
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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 any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... 
