...placed at a distance from each other, without any intervening medium. " It is inconceivable," says he, " that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation...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...

...third letter to Bentley was dated 1693. In that letter, Sir Isaac says, — " it is incon" ceivable that inanimate brute matter should, without the "mediation of something else, which is not material, ope" rate upon and affect other matter, without mutual contact, "as it must do, if gravitation be essential...

...appreciating the depth of his views, but sufficiently alive to the physical inconsistency of main* " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...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...

...divine power, seems to me apparently absurd. The last clause of the second position I like very well. It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should,...upon and affect other matter without mutual contact, 1 as it must be, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential and inherent in it. And this...

...divine power, seems to me apparently absurd. The last clause of the second position I like very well. It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should,...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...

...counsel and dominion ot an intelligent and powerful Being ;" and in his third letter to Bentley : " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter, should,...something else which is not material, operate upon and aflect other matter without mutual contact ;" La Place supposed the velocity of gravitating action...

...power, seems ю to me apparently absurd. The last clause of your second Position I like very well. Tis inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should...which is not material) operate upon and affect other is matter without mutual contact ; as it must, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential...

...clause of your second Position I like very well. Tis inconceivable, that inanimate brute mat- / ter should (without the mediation of something else, which is not material) operate upon and affect other is matter without mutual contact ; as it must, if gravitation, in the sense of Epicurus, be essential...

...manifested the same phenomena, and might therefore be classed together ; sparks were obtained from both, * " It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should,...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...

...the idea of attraction as an ultimate physical fact. In his third letter to Bentley he says : — " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...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...