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,... Properties of Matter - الصفحة 135بواسطة Peter Guthrie Tait - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 332عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 644
...vacuum without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action may be conveyed through one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it". This is explicit enough. The constant efforts of men of science since Newton's day to account for gravitation... | |
| 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 572
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To a friend he wrote : " It is inconceivable that innate brute matter should without the mediation... | |
| L. F. March Phillips - 1883 - عدد الصفحات: 450
...objective cause is concerned, are due to simple " modes of motion." " No man," Sir Isaac Newton wrote, " no man who has in philosophical matters a competent "faculty of thinking, can ever fall into the absurdity that " gravity is innate, inherent, or essential to matter." And, writing in the growing... | |
| Ágost Heller - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 778
...body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, „without the mediation of any thing eise, by and through which their action „and force may...ab„surdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical mattere a com„petent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by „an... | |
| Canadian Institute - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...and through which their action may be conveyed from one to another, is so great an absurdity, that no man, who has in philosophical matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." From this it inevitably follows, that no body, or system of bodies can possess energy merely by virtue... | |
| William Barlow (of Muswell Hill.) - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 422
...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." capillary action : — Magnetic and electrical attraction and repulsion, which, as far as their manifestation... | |
| Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 602
...a. distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of any thing else by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Nevertheless, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to be one of the primary... | |
| Raymond St. James Perrin - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...a distance through a vacuum, and without the mediation of any thing else by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Nevertheless, even his own editor, Roger Cotes, declares action at a distance to be one of the primary... | |
| 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 400
...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...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Newton however, illogically, fought against substance beyond the range of the senses, and and denied... | |
| Benjamin Taylor Kavanaugh - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 254
...decision to his reader. He adds : " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." This disposes of the theory of universal gravitation, which scholastics attribute to him. It certainly... | |
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