The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science: A Historical and Critical EssayHarcourt, Brace, 1925 - 349 páginas |
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Página 254 - dispatched, does it not appear from phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent, omnipresent, who in infinite space, as it were in his sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and thoroughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself; of which things the images only
Página 302 - its existence— its being is to be perceived or known, and, so long as it is not actually perceived by me, or does not exist in my mind, or that of any other created spirit, it must
Página 215 - to the improvement of natural philosophy and therefore of late years have been rejected. To tell us that every species of things is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing : But to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how
Página 65 - through my glass, which he pertinaciously refuses to do. Why are you not here ? What shouts of laughter we should have at this glorious folly ! And to hear the professor of philosophy at Pisa labouring before the Grand Duke with logical arguments, as if with magical incantations, to charm the new planets out of the sky.
Página 227 - Is not vision performed chiefly by the vibrations of this medium, excited in the bottom of the eye by the rays of light, and propagated through the solid, pellucid, and uniform capillamenta of the optic nerves into the place of sensation ? And is not hearing performed by the vibrations either of this or of some other
Página 286 - the frame of nature may be a condensation of various ethereal spirits, " and after condensation wrought into various forms, at first by the immediate hand of the Creator, and ever since by the power of nature, which, by virtue of the command, increase and multiply, became a complete imitator of the copy set her by the Protoplast
Página 217 - the method of analysis : and the synthesis consists in assuming the causes discovered, and established as principles, and by them explaining the phenomena proceeding from them, and proving the explanations. In the first two books of these Optics, I proceeded by this analysis to discover and prove the original differences of the rays of light in respect of refrangibility, reflexibility, and colour, and their
Página 288 - one and the same way in orbs concentric, some inconsiderable irregularities excepted, which may have risen from the mutual actions of comets and planets upon one another, and which will be apt to increase till this system wants a reformation.
Página 104 - of the matter," which is that motion is " the transference of one part of matter or one body from the vicinity of those bodies that are in immediate contact with it, and which we regard as in repose, into the vicinity of others.
Página 225 - inertiae of the whole, result from the extension, hardness, impenetrability, mobility, and vires inertiae of the parts, and thence we conclude the least particles of all bodies to be also all extended, and hard, and impenetrable, and movable, and endowed with their proper