 ... 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,...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 2661856Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Newton - God - 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... | |
 | Books - 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 - Authors, English - 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 - Future life - 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... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Atheism - 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... | |
 | Richard Bentley - 1838 - 580 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. Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Philologists - 1842 - 474 pages
...man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any 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, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Bentley, Richard, 1662-1742 - 1842 - 896 pages
...man, who 25 has in philosophical matters any 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, is a question I have left to the consider- 30 ation of my readers. 70 arguments. But, in your first... | |
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