 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,...  Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - 43 ページDugald Stewart 著 - 1821全文表示 - この書籍について
 | 1756 - 704 ページ
...aftion and force may be conveyed from one to another, il to me, (fays Sir Ifnac) fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity murt be cau' fed by aa agent acting cpnftantly according »' to certain laws." But fuppofing... | |
 | Richard Price - 1777 - 554 ページ
...which their adion and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to " me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who " has in philosophical matters...competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." See tbeThird of the Four Letters from Sir Ifaac Ntwtsn to Dr. Bently, printed for Mr. Dodjley. ' '.... | |
 | 1858 - 620 ページ
...strongly on this matter, in saying, ' To sup* pose that one body may act upon another at a distance, through ' a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing...competent faculty ' of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction which his conception of gravity impressed thus strongly on Newton's mind, is enforced... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 ページ
...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...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | 1823 - 832 ページ
...that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. ' (See Horseley's Newton, Vol. IV. page 438.) I shall conclude with the following pertinent observations... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 ページ
...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, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this agent... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 ページ
...That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing...acts on another at a distance, through a vacuum. But I cannot admit that it removes the difficulty to suppose, that the two bodies are in actual contact.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 ページ
...That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing...acts on another at a distance, through a vacuum. But I cannot admit that it removes the difficulty to suppose, that the two bodies are in actual contact.... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 ページ
...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...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. " Gravity must be caused by an Agent acting constantly according " to certain laws." He further says,... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 590 ページ
...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...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether that agent... | |
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