 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,...  Philosophical Magazine - Page 1361895Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 620 pages
...abrupt end to inquiry. Newton has expressed himself 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 else, by and ' ' through which their action and force may be conveyed from ' one to another,... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 940 pages
...and inherent 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...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, is... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 832 pages
...according to his opinion, we cannot conceive a body to act where it is not. " That gravity (said he) should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desire you would not ascribe inherent gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...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, is... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...and " inherent 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...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,... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 652 pages
...one reason, why I desired, you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, so that one body may act upon another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - Philosophy - 1833 - 522 pages
...and inherent 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...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, is... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Classical poetry - 1838 - 574 pages
...and inherent 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...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, is... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 1838 - 572 pages
...and inherent 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...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, is... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Language Arts & Disciplines - 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...distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action or force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
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