 | Eduard von Grauvogl - 1870 - 844 pages
...that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else. by and through which their action and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who, in philosophical matters, has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it" This passage,... | |
 | American Medical Association - 1870 - 706 pages
...matter, so thatone body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation by and through which their action and force may be...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who, in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." A great leader... | |
 | Thomas Doubleday - 1870 - 190 pages
...of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has, in philosophical matters, competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To this remark of Sir Isaac Newton it is proper... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1870 - 546 pages
...approbation the words of Newton, "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, is so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophic matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it" (p. 368). "The 'force of... | |
 | Andrew Bisset - 1871 - 510 pages
...that one body may act on another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force...so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' Another great... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1872 - 96 pages
...at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediat1on of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of think1ng can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly, according to... | |
 | James Gracey Murphy - 1873 - 360 pages
...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...great an absurdity that I believe no man, who has iu philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused... | |
 | John Albert Broadus - 1874 - 436 pages
...That one body should act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who in philosophical matters has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Accordingly he... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1874 - 216 pages
...at a distance through a vacuum and without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who Las in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be... | |
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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,... 
