 | Isaac Newton - 1756 - 50 páginas
...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an Agent acting conftantly according to certain Laws ; but whether this Agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the Confideration of my Readers, Your fourth Affertion, that the World could not be formed by innate Gravity... | |
 | 1760 - 556 páginas
...opinion is againft me. Sir Ifaac Newton fays, " Gravity muft be " caufed by an agent, a&ing contrary, according to certain " laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, " I have left to the confideration of my Readers." Here Sir Ifaac plainly allows, that matter is an agent, and a6b ; but... | |
 | 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...but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my readers." This agent and its mode of action it is the object of Colden's... | |
 | 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...; but whether this agent be material or immaterial he leaves to the consideration of his readers. This is the onward looking thought of one, who by his... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 páginas
...to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. " Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity alone, you confirm by... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 páginas
...to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." * " The immense void betwixt the celestial bodies has with great impropriety been determined an absolute... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 578 páginas
...to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity alone, you confirm by three... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 896 páginas
...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...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. 70 arguments. But, in your first... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1842 - 474 páginas
...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...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1904 - 724 páginas
...one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." If the action of the sun on the earth were a pulling or attracting action, then, unless it were perfectly... | |
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... a vacuum, without the mediation 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 who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,... 
