| 1856 - 974 sider
...sufficient or satisfactory thought for a philosopher. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essentjal to matter, so that one body may act upon another at...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, is,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 sider
...the " sense of Epirurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one " reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. " That...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... | |
| John Playfair - 1822 - 458 sider
...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... | |
| 1823 - 832 sider
...according to his opinion, we cannot conceive a body to act where it is not. " That gravity (said he) should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter,...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| 1824 - 844 sider
...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 sider
...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 sider
...in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired that you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity...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... | |
| Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 652 sider
...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential 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, so that one body may act upon another, at a distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any... | |
| Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 sider
...contact, "as it must do, if gravitation be essential and inherent in "it; and this is one reason why I desired you would not " ascribe innate gravity to...act upon another at a distance, through a vacuum, with" out the mediation of any thing else, by and through which " their action and force may be conveyed... | |
| Richard Bentley - 1842 - 896 sider
...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me....gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to 20 matter, so that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation... | |
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