| Richard Price - 1772 - 482 sider
...may aft upon another f at a diftance through a vacuum, without the '' mediation of any thing elfe, by and through which •' their action and force may be conveyed from one f* io another, is to me fo great an abfurdity that I f believe no man who h"s in phijofophical matters... | |
| Richard Price - 1777 - 500 sider
...body may afl upon another at a diftancf " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and <« force may be conveyed from one to another, is to 'c me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who *« has in philofophical matters a competent... | |
| 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,... | |
| 1856 - 482 sider
...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, is, he says, to him a great absurdity. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 706 sider
...gravity should be innate, in" herent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act on ano'* ther, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing...through which their action and force may be conveyed u from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe '• no man who has, in philosophical... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 sider
...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... | |
| 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 - 878 sider
...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 - 844 sider
...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... | |
| Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 652 sider
...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,...a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can... | |
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