 | 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 formed by innate Gravity... | |
 | 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 agent, and a6b ; but... | |
 | 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...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 Colden's... | |
 | 1856 - 974 pages
...their action 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...; but whether this agent be material or immaterial he leaves to the consideration of his readers. This is the onward looking thought of one, who by his... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 940 pages
...to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. " Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity alone, you confirm by... | |
 | Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who had in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." * " The immense void betwixt the celestial bodies has with great impropriety been determined an absolute... | |
 | Alexander Crombie - Future life - 1829 - 662 pages
...without the mediation of any thing else, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers." It is evident, then, that he considered gravity to be an effect. It is also evident, that in the second... | |
 | Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...another, is to me so great an " absurdity, that I believe no man who has, in philosophical " matters, a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...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 - Philosophy - 1833 - 522 pages
...to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...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.... | |
 | Richard Bentley - Classical poetry - 1838 - 578 pages
...to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into...immaterial, I have left to the consideration of my readers. Your fourth assertion, that the world could not be formed by innate gravity alone, you confirm by three... | |
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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. 
