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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,... "
The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ... - Page 212
1804
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Four Dissertations

Richard Price - 1777 - 554 pages
...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 a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." See tbeThird of the Four Letters from Sir Ifaac Ntwtsn to Dr. Bently, printed for...
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Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester

1865 - 530 pages
...their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." not essential to the solution of that prohlem that either the exact nature of the...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind, Volume 1

Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...the me" diation of any thing else, by and through which their ac" tion and force may be conveyed from one to another, is " to me so great an absurdity,...philosophical matters, a competent faculty of " thinking, can ever fall into it." With this passage I so far agree, as to allow that it is impossible to conceive...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1865 - 846 pages
...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...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;...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts

1865 - 458 pages
...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...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;...
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The American Journal of Science and Arts, Volumes 107-108

1874 - 1060 pages
...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...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural...
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The North American Review, Volume 60

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1845 - 534 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that...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."...
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Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century ..., Volume 4

John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that...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 ;...
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Works, with a memoir of the author, Volume 2

John Playfait - 1822 - 462 pages
...without the mediation of any thing 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, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Neivtoiu Opera,...
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The Works of John Playfair ...: With a Memoir of the Author ...

John Playfair - 1822 - 464 pages
...without the mediation of any thing 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, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." (Nervtoni Opera,...
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