| Edward Livingston Youmans - 1868 - 526 страници
...without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, con ever fall into it Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly according to certain laws... | |
| Henry Allon - 1882 - 594 страници
...by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. 1882. April veyed from one to another, is to rae so great an absurdity that I believe no man who has...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting according to certain laws ; but whether this... | |
| John Tyndall - 1868 - 192 страници
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to 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.... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 944 страници
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Thus Newton, in giving out his great law, did not abandon the idea that matter... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1894 - 708 страници
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." Thus Newton, in giving out his great law, did not abandon the idea that matter... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1893 - 688 страници
...action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me sogreai an absurdity that I believe that no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain fixed... | |
| John James Drysdale - 1870 - 152 страници
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ;... | |
| John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1870 - 842 страници
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity that...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws;... | |
| Bence Jones, Michael Faraday - 1870 - 534 страници
...without the mediation of anything else, by and through which this action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that...philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws ;... | |
| Thomas Doubleday - 1870 - 190 страници
...of anything else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to the other, is to me so great an absurdity that, I believe, no man who has, in philosophical matters, competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into it." To this remark of Sir Isaac Newton it is proper... | |
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