| Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - 552 páginas
...something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter with.out mutuoj contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action... | |
| 1874 - 1060 páginas
...merits of the plenum and the vacuum. Newton, in his third letter to Bentley, wrote in this wise : " That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential to matter, so that oue body may act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else,... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 páginas
...Forces. The author quotes the following explicit statement from Newton's Third Letter to Benlley : — '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... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 390 páginas
...merits of the plenum and the vacuum. Newton in his third letter to Bentley wrote in this wise : — "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... | |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1875 - 962 páginas
...merits of the plenum and the vacuum. Newton in his third letter to Bentley wrote in this wise : — "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... | |
| Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - 584 páginas
...contact, as it must do if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and... | |
| B. F. Cocker - 1875 - 436 páginas
...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential to and inherent in matter. . . . That gravitation 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 any thing else, by and through... | |
| 1883 - 648 páginas
...disclaimer against taking the law for a qualitative fact. In a letter to Bentley, Newton writes: — "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... | |
| James Thompson Bixby - 1876 - 254 páginas
...something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their... | |
| 1876 - 814 páginas
...Bence Jones, he was fond of quoting the following passage from a letter of Newton to Bentley: — " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
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