 And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments.  The Book of Nature - Page 43by John Mason Good - 1828 - 530 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Vince - Gravitation - 1806 - 72 pages
...for gravitation. In his second advertisement, to the second edition of his Optics, he says, " To show that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning it's cause; chusing to propose it by way of a question, because... | |
 | Agriculture - 1822 - 526 pages
...which the "Question" relating to gravity is published (Newt. Opera, vol. iv), he says, " And to show that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of a question, because... | |
 | Science - 1822 - 536 pages
...which the "Question " relating to gravity is published (Newt. Opera, vol. iv), he says, " And to show that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of a question, because... | |
 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 416 pages
...remarkable : it is found among the Queries in the second edition of his Optics. " To shew," he says, " that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of question, because... | |
 | William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 298 pages
...remarkable : it is found among the Queries in the second edition of his Optics. " To show," he says, " that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of question, because... | |
 | Natural theology - 1836 - 566 pages
...remarkable: it is found among the Queries in the second edition of his Optics. " To show," he says, " that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of question, because... | |
 | Samuel Lytler Metcalfe - Heat - 1843 - 490 pages
...26 of this work, he observes, in the advertisement to the second edition of the Opticks, " to show that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of question, because... | |
 | Isaac Newton - Mathematicians - 1850 - 440 pages
...17. Feb. 25. 169|. Advertisement to 2* Ed. (in English) of his Optics, July 16, 1717 : " And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one question {the 21"} concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question,... | |
 | Isaac Newton, J. Edleston - Letter writing - 1850 - 436 pages
...17. Feb. 25. 169|. Advertisement to 2d Ed. (in English) of his Optics, July 16, 1717 = " And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one question {the 21"} concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question,... | |
 | David Brewster - Physicists - 1855 - 504 pages
...third book some questions, (namely, the thirty-one celebrated queries ;) " and/' he adds, " to shew that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of a question, because... | |
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