...their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that 1 believe no man who has in philosophical matters a...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." The greatest of philosophical reasoners, though inspired with A. He failed to discover and recognize...

...to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the medium of anything else, by and through which their action...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." From which rather involved passage I gather that Newton most positively concluded that a medium was...

...topic, and speaks more decidedly. The notion of gravity being inherent to matter " is to me," he says, " so great an absurdity, that I believe 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...

...their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that 1 believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into tt?'—MUr to Entity. Ала we also know that he sought for the mechanism of gravitation in the properties...

...he says : " 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." And finally, July 16, 1717, he prefaces his treatise on optics with this advertisement : " To show...

...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,...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking will ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws,...

...gravity as essential and inherent to matter," " pray do not ascribe that notion to me," and afterward, " that gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." The law is simply ,\n expression of facts ; he was unable to frame an hypothesis to account for it....

...moment to admit the possibility of such action." Unseen Universe, p. 100. § 164. Newton's language is: "That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it."—Works, vol. 4, p. 438. § 165. Faraday says: "I believe I represent the received idea of the...

...of anything else by or through which their action and effort may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that I believe no man...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." And in this respect the judgment of Sir Isaac Newton is yet the judgment of the scientific and philosophical...

...undeviating position of their orbits through these laws " (Philos. Natur. Princip., I. iii., Sehol. Gen.). absurdity that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly, according to fixed laws." 1 But...