 | Isaac Newton - Optics - 1730 - 432 pages
...may be per-, form'd by impulfe, or by fome other means unknown to me. I ufe that Word here to fignify only in general any Force by which Bodies tend towards one another, whatfpever be the Caufe, For we muft learn from the Phenomena of Nature what Bodies attract one another,... | |
 | English essays - 1752 - 694 pages
...may be performed by impulfe, or by fome other meant unknown to me. I ufe this word here, to fignify only in general any force, by which bodies tend towards one another, whatfoever be the caufe." Here we find Sir Ifaar Newton tells us, we are to underfUnd by t!ie word... | |
 | Felix O'Gallagher - Astronomy - 1784 - 420 pages
...performed by im*' pulfe, or by fome other means unknown *' to me. I ufe the word here to fignify " only in general any force, by which bodies " tend towards one another, whatever be " the cp.ufe ; for we muft learn from the phse" nomena of nature, what bodies attract "... | |
 | Sir Richard Joseph Sullivan (bart.) - Eighteenth century - 1794 - 538 pages
...What I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use the word here to signify only in general, any force by which bodies tend towards each other, whatsoever be the cause. The attractions of gravity, electricity, and magnetism, reach... | |
 | Thomas Gill (patent-agent) - Industrial arts - 1822 - 564 pages
...what I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use the word here to signify only, in general, any force by which bodies tend towards one another, whatever be the cause" Of the manner in which impressions are extended, as well as of the cause of... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 884 pages
...not here consider ; v, liât I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only,...which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the cause. For we must learn from the phenomena of nature what bodies attract one another, and what... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - Astronomy - 1850 - 654 pages
...performed, Ido not here consider. What I call attraction, may be performed by impulse or by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only...which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the cause. " (@. 23.) 1 suppose the rarer aether within bodies and the denser without them. Operum... | |
 | William Robert Grove - Force and energy - 1855 - 300 pages
...speaking of it, says, " What I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only...which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the cause." If we suppose a fluid to act in attractions and repulsions, the imponderable fluid must... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1851 - 382 pages
...performed, I do not here consider. What I call attraction, may be performedby impulse or bysome othermeans unknown to me. I use that word here to signify only...which bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be thé cause. (41) [page 24]. « I suppose the rarer aether within bodies and the denser \vithout... | |
 | Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - Philosophy of nature - 1863 - 652 pages
...attraction may be performed by impulse, or ' by some other means unknown to me. I use that word hère to signify only in general any force, by which bodies tend towards ' one another, whatsoever be thé cause. » (lb. Prop., 31 , p. 351 .) (2) Laplace, Herschel, tous les physiciens, en un mot,... | |
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I do not here consider. What I call attraction may be performed by impulse, or by some other means unknown to me. I use that Word here to signify only in general any Force by which Bodies tend towards one another, whatsoever be the Cause. 
