 | Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.) - Science - 1876 - 568 pages
...That one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the medium of anything else by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent... | |
 | Bernhard Riemann - Functions - 1876 - 537 pages
...one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything eise, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - Preaching - 1876 - 530 pages
...of anything else by and through which their action and force mp.y be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who in philosophical matters has a 'competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Accordingly... | |
 | Leonard G. Cramp - Art - 1997 - 436 pages
...the mediation of anything else by or through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man,...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can fall into it. Gravity must be caused by some agent acting constantly according to certain laws, but... | |
 | A. Rupert Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 324 pages
...innate, inherent and essential to Matter, so that one Body may act upon another at a Distance thro' a Vacuum, without the Mediation of any thing else,...their Action and Force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an Absurdity, that I believe no Man who has in philosophical Matters a competent... | |
 | Robert C. Bless - Science - 1996 - 788 pages
...and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another, at a distance through a vacuum ... is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no...who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty for thinking, can ever fall into it." Also, if all matter attracts all other matter, why do we see... | |
 | Michael F. Stoeber, Hugo Anthony Meynell - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 236 pages
...mediation of 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 who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. 15 In these disclaimers Newton may well, of... | |
 | Richard J. Weiss - Science - 1996 - 200 pages
...one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in physics a complete faculty for thinking, can ever do.' Thus he joined Maxwell, Newton, Franklin, and... | |
 | Remigio Russo - Mathematics - 1996 - 340 pages
...one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has in physics a complete faculty for thinking, can ever do.' Thus he joined Maxwell, Newton, Franklin, and... | |
 | Thomas P. Saine - History - 1997 - 388 pages
...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, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent... | |
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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,... 
