...letter to Bentley: *The Faraday Lecture. Newton saw the "It is inconceivable that inMlstake animate brute matter should without the mediation of something else which is not material [in the same sense], operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact [or even with contact],...

...position was quite clearly stated in his third letter to Bentley, in which he said : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is the reason why I desired that...

...his doubtfulness of his theory, by stating in a letter to Bentley as follows: " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it," and in another letter stated : "Gravity...

...do not pretend to know " (Newton's 2d letter to Bentley, 17th January 1692-93). "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason...

...know " (Newton's 2d letter to Bentley, 17th January 1692-93). "It is inconceivable thatinauimatebrute matter should, without the mediation of something...affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason...

...thing as a vacuum. In his third letter to Bentley, Newton declared that it was to him "inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...and affect other matter, without mutual contact." And again, " that one body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation...

...February 1692/93, he offers a reason for denying the inherence of gravity in matter: "It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute Matter should, without the Mediation...affect other Matter without mutual Contact, as it must be, if Gravitation in the Sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one Reason...

...me apparently absurd. The last clause of your second Position I like very well. Tis inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation...which is not material) operate upon and affect other \& matter without mutual contact ; as it must, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential...

...and even "spiritual" energy extraneous to matter'.2 As Newton wrote to Bentley, 'It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute Matter should, without the Mediation...upon, and affect other Matter, without mutual contact . . . '.3 Forces would thus require, for Newton, 'in the last analysis, the constant action in the...

...single end, expressed in his letter to Richard Bentley in 1691, when he said that it was 'unconceivable that inanimate brute matter should (without the mediation...something else which is not material) operate upon & affect other matter without mutual contact . . .' Further, that 'gravity' is of such a nature that...