...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...

...inherent in it. And this is the reason why I desired you would " not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, " inherent, and essential...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. * On the other hand, by the middle of last century the mathematical naturalists of the Continent, after...

...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...

...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,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Accordingly, we find in h:s " Optical Queries," and in his letters to Boyle, that Newton had very early...

...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,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Accordingly, we find in his " Optical Queries," and in his letters to Boyle, that Newton had very early...

...else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me BO great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." If, as the physical properties of matter seem plainly to show, there is no actual Hence' the assigning...

...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...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 Cambridge,...

...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...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 Cambridge,...

...Forces. The author quotes the following explicit statement from Newton's Third Letter to Benlley : — 'That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' Upon this passage the author proceeds to remark : — ' And yet not long after Newton's time the view...

...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...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Koger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at Cambridge,...