 | Isaac Newton - 1756 - 50 pages
...competent Faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity muft be caufed by an Agent acting conftantly according to certain Laws ; but whether this Agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the Confideration of my Readers, Your fourth Affertion, that the World could not be... | |
 | 1760 - 556 pages
...opinion is againft me. Sir Ifaac Newton fays, " Gravity muft be " caufed by an agent, a&ing contrary, according to certain " laws ; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, " I have left to the confideration of my Readers." Here Sir Ifaac plainly allows, that matter is an... | |
 | 1814 - 550 pages
...gravity a power innate, inherent, and essential to matter; and in a letter to Dr. Bentley had said, that "gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...laws, but whether this agent be material or immaterial I leave to the consideration of my readers." This agent and its mode of action it is the object of... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...believe 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...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. " In the next part of your Letter you lay down four... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." * " The immense void betwixt the celestial bodies... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - 1829 - 662 pages
...an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, acting constantly...But whether this agent be material, or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." It is evident, then, that he considered gravity to... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...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 laws." He further says, " In my former letter, I represented, that the " diurnal rotations of the planets... | |
 | Isaac Preston Cory - 1833 - 590 pages
...believe 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 laws ; but whether that agent be material or immaterial I have left to the consideration of my readers." Newton's III.... | |
 | John BRINKLEY (Bishop of Cloyne.) - 1836 - 334 pages
...distance. 336. Of the immediate cause of gravitation, he confesses himself ignorant. He says,* that gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws : but whether Ihis agent be material or immaterial, he did not attempt to decide. He reflected much on this subject,... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 572 pages
...believe ho 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...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be... | |
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... a vacuum, 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 I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking,... 
