 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 страници
...at a distance from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceiv" able," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, " without the...and aflect other matter, without " mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the " sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And "... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 страници
...worth the while to alter your numbers. " In " The last clause of the second position I like very well. It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus,... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 464 страници
...inherent in matter. The following passage, in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley, is still more explicit: " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...something else, •which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact,- as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus,... | |
 | 1824 - 844 страници
...inherent in matter. The following passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit: " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus,... | |
 | 1824 - 878 страници
...inherent in matter. The following passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus,... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 страници
...know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it." And in the third letter he remarks — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...something else, which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus,... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 страници
...sometimes speak of gravity as essential " and inherent to matter. Fray do not ascribe that notion to me. " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...something else, which is not material, operate " upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact ; as it must " do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 страници
...placed at a distance from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...something else which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter, without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus,... | |
 | Richard Saumarez - 1832 - 76 страници
...third letter to Bentley was dated 1693. In that letter, Sir Isaac says, — " it is incon" ceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the "mediation of something else, which is not material, ope" rate upon and affect other matter, without mutual contact, "as it must do, if gravitation be essential... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 232 страници
...appreciating the depth of his views, but sufficiently alive to the physical inconsistency of main* " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if Gravitation in the sense of Epicurus,... | |
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It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential... 
