| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 944 páginas
...Bernoulli's idea of Newtonianism, for in his letter to Bentley to date February 25, I792,3 he wrote: "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... | |
| Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1869 - 636 páginas
...Newton upon this point : over and over agaiq he introduces his memorable words, " That gravity should bo innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
| Eduard von Grauvogl - 1870 - 844 páginas
...the following example : "It is inconceivable," said Newton in one of his letters to Dr. Bentley, ', that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...and affect other matter without mutual contact. That gravitv should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at... | |
| Thomas Doubleday - 1870 - 190 páginas
...even for the intellect of Newton, who, in a letter to Dr. Bentley, says : — "It is inconceivable that inanimate, brute, matter should, without the...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do, if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus be essential and inherent in it. That gravity... | |
| John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1870 - 842 páginas
...support of this conclusion he quotes the following passage from Newton's third letter to Bentley : " 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... | |
| Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 534 páginas
...He loved to quote Newton upon this point : over and over again he introduces his memorable words, " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
| John James Drysdale - 1870 - 152 páginas
...support of this conclusion he quotes the following passage from Newton's third letter to Bentley : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upou another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1872 - 914 páginas
...his life pointed out, by Newton and Rumford* in the following statements : — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without " the...upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must " do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and " inherent in it. And... | |
| John Tyndall - 1872 - 210 páginas
...loved to quote Newton upon this point : over and over again he introduces his memorable words, ' That i gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1873 - 516 páginas
...letter to Bentley which has been quoted by Faraday in this place, he says :— " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That gravity... | |
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