...notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know." And again in the third letter: "It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...of something else, which is not material, operate on, and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do, if gravitation, in the sense of...

...Fähigkeit zur Bewegungsänderung inhäriere, sondern dafs ein immaterielles Prinzip zur 1 A. a. 0. p. 438. It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of something clse, which . not material, operate upon, and affect other matter without mutual contact; as it must...

...been repeated to adventurous hypothecators as the example of the model scientific man. Hear him ! " 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. . . . That gravity...

...gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it." " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute matter should,...mediation of something else which is not material, operate on and affect other matter without mutual contact, as it must do if gravitation in the sense of Epicurus...

...letter to Bentley: *The Faraday Lecture. Newton saw the "It is inconceivable that inMlstake animate brute matter should without the mediation of something else which is not material [in the same sense], operate upon and affect other matter without mutual contact [or even with contact],...

...auch den Entscheid zwischen diesen möglichen Arten der 1 Newtoni Opera, by HORSLEY, vol. IV, p. 438: It is inconceivable, that inanimate brute matter should, without the mediation of some thing else, which is not material, operate upon and effect other matter without mutual contact...

...Newton himself confessed afterwards his doubtfulness of his theory, by stating in a letter to Bentley as follows: " It is inconceivable that inanimate brute...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 in another...

...of gravity is what I do not pretend to know " (Newton's 2d letter to Bentley, 17th January 1692-93). "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...

...him. His own position was quite clearly stated in his third letter to Bentley, in which he said : " 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...

...know " (Newton's 2d letter to Bentley, 17th January 1692-93). "It is inconceivable thatinauimatebrute matter should, without the mediation of something...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...