 | Ágost Heller - 1884 - 778 páginas
...no man who has in philosophical mattere a com„petent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by „an agent acting constantly...whether this agent ,,be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." Leiters to Dr. Bentley, Lett. III, Op. IV, pag. 438.... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1885 - 514 páginas
...positively, and declares that the notion of gravity being inherent to matter seems to him an ' absurdity.' 'Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers.'- Taken as a whole, Bentley's ' Boyle Lectures "afford... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1885 - 344 páginas
...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...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." 161. When we come to deal with molecular forces we shall... | |
 | 1885 - 820 páginas
...rules. A sentence from Newton will show how he recognized this distinction (third letter to Bentley) : ' Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws' " other than physical law. Order and uniformity among spiritual phenomena must exist. Just as likely,... | |
 | Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh - 1886 - 254 páginas
...or towards centers of other masses." Newton, in one of his letters to his friend Bentley, says : " Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly,...material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my reader." Every one who has not abdicated his manhood and renounced his right to think for himself is... | |
 | Elroy McKendree Avery - 1886 - 284 páginas
...that no man who has a competent faculty oi thinking in philosophical matters can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...but whether this agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." Newton comes very near framing a hypothesis when, in... | |
 | Joseph Smith Van Dyke - 1886 - 494 páginas
...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 agency be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my reader." — Newton's Third... | |
 | John Hume Kedzie - 1886 - 332 páginas
...intervening medium. This medium we now know can be none other than the universal ether. Newton says: " Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws." What can this agent or force be but the known mechanical vibrations with which every form of matter... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1882 - 252 páginas
...no man, who has in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." One of the most interesting points in these letters... | |
 | George Stearns - 1888 - 348 páginas
...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...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." "There you have it plain and flat." Newton saw that... | |
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... 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,... 
