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... Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Discoveries of Sir Isaac Newton - Page 464by David Brewster - 1855Full view - About this book
| John Nichols, John Bowyer Nichols - Authors, English - 1822 - 934 pages
...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 be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason... | |
| John Playfair - Science - 1822 - 464 pages
...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 or inherent in it. That gravity should be... | |
| 1824 - 878 pages
...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 or inherent in it. That gravity should be... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1824 - 844 pages
...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 or inherent in it. That gravity should be... | |
| Thomas Tregenna Biddulph - 1825 - 520 pages
...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 and inherent in it. And this is one reason... | |
| Joseph Cottle - 1829 - 318 pages
...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 and " inherent in it. And this is one... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...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 and inherent in it. And this is one reason... | |
| Isaac Preston Cory - Philosophy - 1833 - 522 pages
...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 be, if Gravitation in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason... | |
| Richard Bentley - 1838 - 580 pages
...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 be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent iu it. And this is one reason... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1845 - 540 pages
...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, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this is one reason why I desired you... | |
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