 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...And this is one reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. 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 else, by and through which their action... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - Air - 1832 - 76 pages
..."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,...act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, with" out the mediation of any thing else, by and through which " their action and force may be conveyed... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 - 1842 - 896 pages
...would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to 20 matter, so that one body may act upon another at a...any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man,... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Philologists - 1842 - 474 pages
...would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to 20 matter, so that one body may act upon another at a...any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Knowledge, Theory of - 1843 - 648 pages
...which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 530 pages
...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,...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through wliich their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1904 - 724 pages
...in it. And this is the reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...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... | |
 | Medicine - 1847 - 900 pages
...theory. The truth is, Newton himself entertained no such idea. Witness "his own words : "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | 1847 - 28 pages
...else, which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | Francis Bowen - Apologetics - 1849 - 500 pages
...fictions, through which the mathematician deduces by exact computation the future positions of tke real heavenly bodies from their past states and revolutions...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through wlu'ch their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,... | |
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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,... 
