 | Isaac Newton - 1756 - 50 페이지
...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 페이지
...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 - 580 페이지
...inherent, and essential to matter ; and in a letter to Dr. Bentley had said, that " gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...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... | |
 | 1856 - 482 페이지
...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 to...leaves to the consideration of his readers. This is the onward looking thought of one, who by his knowledge and like quality of mind, saw in the diamond an... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 페이지
...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...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 페이지
...had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...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 페이지
...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 according to...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... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 578 페이지
...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...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... | |
 | John BRINKLEY (Bishop of Cloyne.) - 1836 - 334 페이지
...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 - 1842 - 896 페이지
...in philosophical matters any competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to...but whether this agent be material or immaterial, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. 70 arguments. But, in your first... | |
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Gravity must be caused by an agent acting constantly according to certain laws; but whether this agent be material or immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. 
