 | 1766 - 220 pages
...inconceivable to Sir Ifjae, that inanimate brute Matter ihould, without the Mediation of fomething file, which is not material, operate upon and afFect other Matter, without mutual Contaft ; as it mull be, if Gravitation, in the Senfe of Epicurut, be euential and inherent in it.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1808 - 590 pages
...inconceivable," fays he, " that in" animate brute matter mould, without the mediation " of fomething elfe which is not material, operate " upon, and affect other matter, without mutual con" tact ; as it muft do, if gravitation, in the fenfe of " Epicurus, be eflential and inherent in... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1813 - 564 pages
...inconceivable," fays he, ** that inanimate brute matter fhould, without the " mediation of fomething elfe which is not material, " operate upon, and affect other matter, without " mutual "contact ; as it muft do, if gravitation, in " the fenfe of Epicurus, be effential and inherent in ** it. And this is... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 528 pages
...bodies placed at a distance from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceiv" able," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, " without...something else which is not " material, operate upon, and aflect other matter, without " mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the " sense of Epicurus,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 708 pages
...communication of motion by impulse, to be a phenomenon much more explicable, than that a connexicfn should subsist between two bodies placed at a distance...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inhe" rent in it. And this is one reason why I desired that you would not u ascribe innate gravity... | |
 | John Playfair - 1822 - 458 pages
...following passage, in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley, is still more explicit : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 934 pages
...alter your numbers. " In " The last clause of the second position I like very well. It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason... | |
 | John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - 1822 - 940 pages
...which is not material, operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential...inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you would not ascribe innate gravity to me. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1822 - 572 pages
...should, without the mediation of " something else which is not material, operate upon, and effüct other " matter, without mutual contact ; as it must do, if gravitation, in the " sense of Epirurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one " reason why I desired that you would not... | |
 | 1824 - 844 pages
...following passage in one of his Letters to Dr Bentley is still more explicit: " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential or inherent in it. That gravity should be innate, inherent, and essential to matter, so that one body... | |
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It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something else, which is not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential... 
