 | William Jones - Physics - 1762 - 324 pages
...ufe it to " fignify an effect: neverthelefs, to attraction effects are ma<{ nifejlly owing" SIR Ifaac Newton. " There are agents in nature able to " make the particles of bodies ftick together by very ftrong " attractions, and it is the bufinefs of experimental philofo" phy to... | |
 | Richard Lovett - Compasses (Mathematical instruments) - 1766 - 610 pages
...fignify an " eff'eCt : Neverthelefs, to attraction effects are " manifejily owing" 1 27. Sir Ifaac Newton. " There are Agents " in Nature able to make the particles of Bo" dies ftick together by very ftrong Attractions f " and it is the bufinefs of experimental Philo.*'... | |
 | Alexander Maxwell (bookseller.) - 1817 - 240 pages
...determine the physical cause of it, but use it to signify an effect: nevertheless, to attraction, effects are manifestly owing." Sir Isaac Newton. — " There...attractions, and it is the business of experimental philosophy to find them out." Dr. Desagnliers. — " We are not solicitous about the cause ef attraction"... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1818 - 570 pages
...between two glasses, he says, — " There are therefore AGENTS in nature able to make the parti" cles of bodies stick together by very strong attractions. And " it is the business of experimental philosophy to find them out." So again p. 365 — " Now if compound bodies are so very hard as " we... | |
 | Bartholomew Prescot - Astronomy - 1822 - 292 pages
...imagination, created his primitive particles of matter, consistency obliged him also to employ imaginary " agents in nature able to make the particles of bodies...stick together by very strong attractions : and," he adds, " it is the business of experimental philosophy to find them out." Having puzzled the philosophers... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 pages
...on to five-and-nfty, and will drop him in his old age, if she can ./fad her account in another. U. There are agents in nature able to make the particles...stick together by very strong attractions, and it is them out. Newton. If we suppose a man perfectly accommodated, and trace him through all the gradations... | |
 | John Gibson MacVicar - 1830 - 674 pages
...their several natures and dispositions, suck in various juices from the blood. There are, therefore, agents in nature able to make the particles of bodies...attractions ; and it is the business of experimental philosophy to find them out. Now, the smallest particles of matter may cohere by the strongest attractions,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 864 pages
...him on to uve-and-nfty, and will drop him in his old age, if she can ßnd her account in another. U. There are agents in nature able to make the particles...attractions, and it is the business of experimental philosophy to ßnd them out. Newton. If we suppose a man perfectly accommodated, and trace him through... | |
 | George Horne, William Jones - Theology - 1846 - 588 pages
...speaking of the phenomenon of a drop of oil between two glasses, he says — " There are therefore agents in nature able to make the particles of bodies...attractions. And it is the business of experimental philosophy to find them out." So again, p. 305 — " Now if compound bodies are so very hard as we... | |
 | William Sedgwick - Human beings - 1902 - 316 pages
...by very strong attractions. Hence we conclude that in amoeboid fluid bodies we have found Newton's " Agents in Nature able to make the particles of bodies stick together by strong attractions ; " and that we have found them very near to the place where Newton was looking... | |
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Newton provided evidence to show that there " are therefore agents in nature able to make the particles of bodies stick together by very strong attractions. And it is the business of experimental philosophy to find them out. 
