 That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may 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,...  Michael Faraday: His Life and Work - Strona 157autor: Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1898 - Liczba stron: 308Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1862 - Liczba stron: 542
...without mediation of anything else by " and through which their action and " force may be iconveyed from one to " another, is to me so great an absurdity,...competent " faculty of thinking, can ever fall into " it." Empty space ! it is a delusion. Between us and the sun, between us and the remotest star whose beams... | |
 | Sir Henry Holland - 1862 - Liczba stron: 576
...distance, ; through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, 1 by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...no man who has in philosophical matters a competent i- faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.' The conviction ii which his conception of gravity thus... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - Liczba stron: 818
...dictum of " common-sense :" and so much for the antagonistic dictum whose "absurdity is so great that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it!"* And this absurd — this incomprehensible — this inconceivable proposition — that matter is capable... | |
 | 1863 - Liczba stron: 718
...without the mediation of anything else by and through which their action and force may be convoyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity,...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever faU into it." * One of the ablest statements and defenses of this theory may be found in Bowen's "... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 648
...at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of anything else, by and through which thoir action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." See Newton's Third Letter to Bentley. of ordinary combustion. If we examine the solar spectrum, we... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 656
...at a distance, through a vacuum, without the nwdiniion of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another,...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever tdl into it." See Newton's Third Letter to Buntley. of ordinary combustion. If we examine the solar... | |
 | 1865 - Liczba stron: 530
...their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." In the laws of gravitation, the motions of the heavenly bodies are proposed as a mechanical problem... | |
 | Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society - 1865 - Liczba stron: 530
...their action and force may be conveyed to one another, is to him so great an absurdity that he believes no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into." In the laws of gravitation, the motions of the heavenly bodies are proposed as a mechanical problem... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - Liczba stron: 192
...action of ' contiguous particles.' His first great paper on frictional electricity was sent to the Eoyal Society on November 30, 1837. We here find him face...another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe ta no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.... | |
 | 1874 - Liczba stron: 802
...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,...competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." Roger Cotes, who was Newton's successor in the chair of mathematics and natural philosophy at Cambridge,... | |
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