...dated February 25, 1692-3. he expresses himself somewhat less guardedly thus: "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...Epicurus be essential and inherent in it. And this is oue reason why I desired you would not ascribe ' innate gravity ' to me. That gravity should be innate,...

...maxim that " a thing can not act where it is not." " It is inconceivable," he writes 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...

...maxim that " a thing can not act where it is not." " It is inconceivable," he writes to Dr. Bentley, "that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...not material, operate upon and affect other matter vritftout mutual contact. * * * That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so...

...inconsistent with what Sir Isaac Newton writes in his third letter to Bentley: "It is inconceivable, he says, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...of something else, which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus...

...„It is inconceivable , that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something eise , which is not material, operate upon, and affect other...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it." missverstanden haben, insofern sie die Worte inanimate brute übersehen hätten. Denn von unbeseeltem,...

...„It is inconceivable , that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something eise , which is not material, operate upon, and affect other...do, if gravitation , in the sense of Epicurus, be essentiai and inherent in it." missverstanden haben, insofern sie die Worte inanimate brute übersehen...

...Vorwurf, dass sie in dem berühmten Briefe Newton's an Bentley1) die Stelle: „It is inconceivable , that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutna/ contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent...

...without the mediation of something eise, which is not material, operate upon and affect other motter without mutual contact, as it must do, if gravitation,...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it." Dieser Ausspruch lässt mehr als eine Deutung zu, und wurde in neuester Zeit mehrfach diskutirt und...

...: -l! is inconceivable that inauimate brüte matter should without the mediation of something eise, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual coutact, äs it must do, if graviution, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it."...

...who distinctly states, in words already quoted under the first Prolegomenon, ' It is 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 one body may act on...