 | David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers - 1986 - 538 pages
...General Scholium, however, and indeed throughout the Principia, Newton made clear that gravity "operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes used to do), but according to the quantity of solid matter which they contain."41 Having thus... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 1989 - 180 pages
...centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes used to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | Harald Fritzsch - 1994 - 318 pages
...centers of the Sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes used to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | John Earman, John D. Norton - 1998 - 604 pages
...centers of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes used to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | Daniel Garber, Michael Ayers - 1998 - 992 pages
...mechanistic explanation of gravity when he asserts that the 'cause' of the power of gravity 'operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes do) , but according to the quantity of solid matter which they contain.' See Newton 1972, vol.... | |
 | Max Jammer - 1999 - 290 pages
...primordial desire to coagulate itself into matter. The second quality or " The force of gravitation acts "not according to the quantity of the surfaces...of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes use to do)," Principles, p. 506. ™Caroline FE Spurgeon, "William Law and the mystics," in... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 pages
...penetrates to the very centers of the sun and planets with no diminution of force, and that operates, not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes usually do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter they contain, and which acts... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - 2000 - 132 pages
...penetrates to the very centers of the sun and planets with no diminution of force, and that operates, not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes usually do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter they contain, and which acts... | |
 | Ivor Leclerc - 2002 - 392 pages
...centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts (as mechanical causes used to do), but according to the quantity of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to the quantity of the surfaces of the particles upon which it acts, but according to the quantity, of the solid matter which they contain, and propagates its virtue on... | |
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... of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. 
