You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me; for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it. Properties of Matter - الصفحة 135بواسطة Peter Guthrie Tait - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 332عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| New Zealand Institute - 1870 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...mantle, alone were visible. " You sometimes speak of gravity," Sir Isaac Newton writes to Bentley, " as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe...cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know." Here we have the great discoverer avowing, that gravitation, according to his judgment, is not in itself... | |
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