 | 1856 - 974 pagina’s
...law of action of distant bodies, including amongst such the sun and Saturn, which are nine hundred millions of miles apart, did not leave the subject...philosopher. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essentjal to matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pagina’s
...contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pagina’s
...inherent in it. And this is one " reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. " That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so " that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the " mediation of any thing else, by and through which their... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pagina’s
...contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through... | |
 | 1824 - 878 pagina’s
...mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pagina’s
...inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1843 - 648 pagina’s
...something else, which is not material, operate 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 another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | 1847 - 28 pagina’s
...of something else, which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | 1847 - 900 pagina’s
...the Newtonian theory. The truth is, Newton himself entertained no such idea. Witness "his own words : "That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 538 pagina’s
...inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on another, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action... | |
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That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body can act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,... 
