The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art, Band 7

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Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1856
 

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Seite 161 - 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, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Seite 380 - Prize be open to the competition of all persons who have at any time been admitted to a Degree in this University. 4. That the successful Candidate receive two years...
Seite 162 - ... earth is; — the attraction of gravity is then exerted, and we say that the sun attracts the earth, and, also, that the earth attracts the sun. But if the sun attracts the earth, that force of attraction must either arise because of the presence of the earth near the sun ; or it must have pre-existed in the sun when the earth was not there.
Seite 162 - ... suspended, ie rendered existent without action or without its equivalent action. The conservation of power is now a thought deeply impressed upon the minds of philosophic men ; and I think that, as a body, they admit that the creation or annihilation of force is equally impossible with the creation or annihilation of matter. But if we conceive the sun existing alone in space, exerting no force of gravitation exterior to it; and then- conceive another sphere in space having like conditions, and...