...gleichwertigen Räume der Inertialsysteme, wobei allerdings immer noch zwischen Rauminhalt und Raumform 9 „You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and...cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know ..." (Newton an Dr. Bentley, Cambridge, Trinity College, „Jan. 17, 1692-3", in: Newton 1964, S. 437.)...

...of January 17, 1693, 'You some times speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray, do ascribe that notion to me; for the cause of gravity...therefore would take more time to consider of it,' Alexandre Koyre, 'Newtonian Studies' (London, 1965) p. 163, remarks that by ignoring Newton's distinction...

..."You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to Matter," he once wrote to a colleague. "Pray do not ascribe that Notion to me; for the Cause of Gravity is what I do not pretend to know."24 Newton, in fact, was a mystic, a loyal Anglican, and a believer in an all-powerful, unpredictable...

...Newton himself had been disappointed by the descriptive nature of his theory of universal gravitation: "The Cause of Gravity is what I do not pretend to know," he wrote sullenly. For Einstein too it was not enough to know how that apple falls from the tree. He...

...his letters to Bentley, in Works of Richard Bentley, Vol. 3 (London, 1838), pp. 2 1 0, 2 1 1 - 1 2 : 'You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent...to matter. Pray, do not ascribe that notion to me. . . .' 'It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something...

...gravitación, pp. 22-24. 54 Al finalizar esta carta, con fecha 17 de enero de 1693, Newton escribe: "You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent...pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consideren of it" (Four Letters from Sir Isaac Newton to Doctor Bentley; Containing some Arguments...

...gravity was an active principle inherent in matter itself. In one of his private letters, Newton pleads: "Pray, do not ascribe that notion to me; for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know."7 In the second edition he emphasized that he does not "affirm gravity to be essential to bodies:...

...bodies, an interpretation to which Newton reacted with scrupulous alarm. He wrote to a correspondent: "Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause...therefore would take more time to consider of it." And in a subsequent letter to the same person, he stated forthrightly: That gravity should be innate,...

...Bentley zurück, lässt allerdings die Antwort auf die Frage nach der Ursache der Schwerkraft offen: „You sometimes speak of Gravity as essential and inherent to Matter. Pray do not aseribe that Notion to nie: for the Cause of Gravity is what 1 do not pretend to know, and therefore...

...physical existence of velocity and acceleration." This is true of so-called matter. Gravity. — " You, sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent...ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is 35 what I do not pretend to know" 4 (Sir Isaac Newton). What is called gravity, as my brother, Colonel...