...of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it." "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...mediation of something else which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus...

...sentence from Newton's third letter to Bentley : "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute [inert] matter should, without the mediation of something else which is not material [ie, without an ethereal medium], operate upon and affect other matter, without material contact, as...

...it was to him inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, wiihout the mediation of something which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact. We must in all our mental acts remain within the limits of our own senses, our own concepts, our own...

...determined " (see Mod. Mater., by Rev. WF Wilkinson); and in his third Letter to Bentley he says : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...other matter, without mutual contact, as it must do if graviGRAVITY OR WHAT? 49! tation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. ... That...

...distance. " It ia inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something clso which is not material, operate upon and affect other...mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the senseof Epicurus be essential and inherent in it ... That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential...

...him. His own position was quite clearly stated in his third letter to Bentley, in which he said : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is the reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate,...

...with this. Newton said, "Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to fixed laws. It is inconceivable that inanimate, brute matter should,...material, operate upon and affect other matter, without contact." To this, also, after nearly two hundred years of further investigation, Faraday, Helmholtz,...

...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...

...involving no consideration of real and primary physical causes. " It is inconceivable," he says, " 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...

...Fälligkeit zur Bewegungsänderung iuhäriere, sondern dafs ein immaterielles Prinzip zur 1 A. a. 0. p. 438. It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should,...and inherent in it. And this is one reason, why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent and essential...