But to derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the Causes... The Monist - Página 430editado por - 1915Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Isaac Newton - 1730 - 403 páginas
...produces manifeft Effects, is to tell us nothing: But to derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how" the...Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from thofe manifeft Principles, would be a very great flep in Philofophy, though the Caufes of thofe Principles... | |
| Frederick Beasley - 1822 - 584 páginas
...properties and actions of all coporeal things follow from these principles; this would be a great progress in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered. Again — 1 have explained the phenomena of the Heavens and the sea by the force of gravity; but the... | |
| Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 842 páginas
...derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how th« properties and actions of all corporeal things follow...causes of those principles were not yet discovered. Newton. The gradus, a Roman measure, may be translated л step, or the half of a passus or pace. Arbuthnol... | |
| Stephen Peter Rigaud - 1838 - 208 páginas
...at the end of the Optics. " To derive two or three general principles of motion " from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the " properties and...causes of those " principles were not yet discovered." Indeed the ether, of which the existence has been so repeatedly and so generally assumed, was only... | |
| William Whewell - 1840 - 606 páginas
...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 the...properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles... | |
| 1841 - 530 páginas
...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 the...properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of these principles... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 654 páginas
...effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two 'or three, general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions...very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of Ihose principles were not yet discovered : and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 676 páginas
...nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomcna, and afterwards lo tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal...very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of Ihosc principles were not yet discovered : and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of... | |
| Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - 656 páginas
...nothing: but to derive two or ihree general principles of motion from phaenomcna, and afterwards lo tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from Ihose manifest principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of Ihose principles... | |
| William Whewell - 1860 - 604 páginas
...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 the...properties and actions o'f all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles... | |
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