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| Richard Price - Apologetics - 1772 - 482 pages
...may aft upon another f at a diftance through a vacuum, without the '' mediation of any thing elfe, by and through which •' their action and force may be conveyed from one f* io another, is to me fo great an abfurdity that I f believe no man who h"s in phijofophical matters... | |
| Richard Price - Theology, Unitarian - 1777 - 500 pages
...body may afl upon another at a diftancf " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and <« force may be conveyed from one to another, is to 'c me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man who *« has in philofophical matters a competent... | |
| 1858 - 620 pages
...abrupt end to inquiry. Newton has expressed himself strongly on this matter, in saying, ' To sup* pose that one body may act upon another at a distance, through ' a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and ' ' through which their action and force may be conveyed from ' one to another,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1813 - 520 pages
...fo that one body may act on another, " through a vacuum, without the mediation of any " thing elfe, by and through which their action and " force may be conveyed from one to another, is to *' me fo great an abfurdity, that I believe no man " who has, in philofophical matters, a competent... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 382 pages
...matter, so that one body may act on ano" ther, through a vacuum, 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 I believe " no man who has, in philosophical matters, a competent... | |
| Dugald Stewart - Psychology - 1821 - 706 pages
...matter, so that one body may act on ano'* ther, through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, " by and through which their action and force may be conveyed u from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe '• no man who has, in philosophical... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 940 pages
...you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at...distance through a vacuum without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 934 pages
...that one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum 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 I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty... | |
| John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 458 pages
...that one body may act on another, at a distance, through a vacuum, 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 I believe no man who, in philosophical matters, has a competent... | |
| English literature - 1823 - 832 pages
...conceive a body to act where it is not. " That gravity (said he) should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body may act upon another at...distance, through a vacuum, without the mediation of something else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is... | |
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