...expressly disavows in his often quoted letter to Dr. Bentley. " It is inconceivable," writes Newton, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, which it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus be essential and inherent in it, and this...

...been made, the communication of motion by impulse might have been predicted by reasoning a priori.1 From the following passage, in one of Sir Isaac Newton's...which is not material, operate upon, and affect other i See An Antwer to Lnrd Kamts'l Kxlny nn Motion; by John Stewait, MI). matter without mutual contact,...

...might be conveyed to each other. " It is inconceivable," said Newton, in propounding this theory, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact That gravity should be innate and essential to matter so that one body should act on another through...

...intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, without tlio mediation of something else which is not material, operate upon, and affect other 1 Sqe AH Aruteer to Lord Kamet't Etiny on Motion ; by John Stewart, MI>. matter without mutual contact,...

...mine.] And again, 'tis unconceivable, y' inanimate brute matter should (without a divine impression) operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must, if gravitation be essential and inherent in it. " (3.) But then if gravitation cannot be essential...

...phenomena of gravitation. " It is inconceivable," said Newton, in one of his letters to Dr. Bentley,* " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...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,...

...Isaac Newton, and presented by this great philosopher as a primary intuition : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact." x The opposite supposition he affirms to be " too great an absurdity" to be believed by any one " who,...

...himself was carried away by this very assumption of the Cartesians, since he deemed it inconceivable, "that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon, and affect other matter, without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that a body may act on another,...

...phenomena of gravitation. "It is inconceivable," said Newton, in one of his letters to Dr. Bentley,* "that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...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...

...himself was carried away by this very assumption of the Cartesians, since he deemed it inconceivable, "that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...something else which is not material, operate upon, and aifect other matter, without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...