 ... 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...  The Church Quarterly Review - Seite 1501876Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 Seiten
...dictum of " common-sense :" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose "absurdity is so great that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it!"* And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition — that matter... | |
 | 1863 - 718 Seiten
...action and force may be convoyed 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 faU into it." * One of the ablest statements and defenses of this theory may be found in Bowen's "... | |
 | 1865 - 648 Seiten
...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." See Newton's Third Letter to Bentley. of ordinary combustion. If we examine the solar spectrum,... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1865 - 530 Seiten
...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." In the laws of gravitation, the motions of the heavenly bodies are proposed as a mechanical problem... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 Seiten
...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. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this... | |
 | 1865 - 530 Seiten
...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." In the laws of gravitation, the motions of the heavenly bodies are proposed as a mechanical problem... | |
 | Paul Janet - 1866 - 216 Seiten
...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. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this... | |
 | Paul Janet - 1867 - 214 Seiten
...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. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ; but whether this... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 Seiten
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ta no man who has in 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 ; but whether this... | |
 | 1874 - 802 Seiten
...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." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at... | |
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