 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie, Joseph Henry Allen - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 532
...gravitation answer. " It is inconceivable," says Newton, in a celebrated passage of his letter to Bentley, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...gravitation answer. " It is inconceivable," says Newion, in a celebrated passage of his letter to Bentley, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon... | |
 | Charles Lowe, Henry Wilder Foote, John Hopkins Morison, Henry H. Barber, James De Normandie - 1874 - عدد الصفحات: 552
...answer. " It is inconceivable," says New'ton, in a celebrated 'passage of his letter to Bentley, " that inanimate 'brute matter should, without the mediation...material, operate upon and affect other matter with.out mutuoj contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one... | |
 | Royal institution of Great Britain - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 584
...them, that in a letter to Bentley, which has been quoted by Faraday in this place, he says : — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon... | |
 | B. F. Cocker - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...Newton himself did not affirm this."2 On the contrary, he earnestly rejects any such hypothesis. " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential to and inherent in matter. . . . That gravitation should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,... | |
 | 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 1004
...Newton's letters to Bentley, cited by John Stuart Mill in his System of Logic, which runs as follows : ' It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. . . . That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1875 - عدد الصفحات: 588
...brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate opon und affect other matter without mutual contact, as it...sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That gravity should bo innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon... | |
 | 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 592
...to leave at least one master of the field. However, Newton himself emphatically repudiated the idea that ' inanimate brute matter should, without the...of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in- it.' And whilst the disciples of Newton accept provisionally gravitation as the phenomenal law which alone enables... | |
 | 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 590
...to leave at least one master of the field. However, Newton himself emphatically repudiated the idea that ' inanimate brute matter should, without the...of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it.' And whilst the disciples of Newton accept provisionally gravitation as the phenomenal law which alone enables... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...In his third letter, dated February 25, 1692-3. he expresses himself somewhat less guardedly thus: "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...Epicurus be essential and inherent in it. And this is oue reason why I desired you would not ascribe ' innate gravity ' to me. That gravity should be innate,... | |
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It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential... 
