WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. The Life of Sir Isaac Newton - Página 256por David Brewster - 1832 - 323 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| I. Bernard Cohen - 1980 - 428 páginas
...Principia, he wrote to Bentley that while composing the Principia ('my Treatise about our system'), 'I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity' (Newton, 1958, p. 280; 1959-1977, vol. 3, p. 233). About two decades later, in 1713, he declared in... | |
| William Carl Placher - 1983 - 332 páginas
...the continuing order of the solar system.7 When he wrote his physics, he explained to a friend, "I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity, and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."8 On the other hand, Newton found... | |
| J.D. North, J.J. Roche - 1985 - 484 páginas
...Reader, npn 59. Newton wrote to Bentley in December 1692: "When I wrote my treatise about our System I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity & nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it useful for that purpose". Newton,... | |
| David C. Lindberg, Ronald L. Numbers - 1986 - 538 páginas
...Newton's four replies began with the now famous words: "When I wrote my treatise upon our Systeme I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity and nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it usefull for that purpose."9 By way... | |
| Charles E. Hummel - 1986 - 300 páginas
..."evangelistic" concern, Newton believed he provided evidence. "When I wrote my treatise about our Systeme, I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity & nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it usefull for that purpose."84 Newton... | |
| Reinhard Bendix - 1989 - 470 páginas
...advice in preparing his argument. Newton wrote to Bentley: "When I wrote my treatise about our Systeme I had an eye upon such Principles as might work with considering men for the beliefe of a Deity & nothing can rejoyce me more than to find it usefull for that purpose."27 As a... | |
| Ruth Salvaggio - 1988 - 192 páginas
...allowed Richard Bentley to expound on the ways in which his mathematical principles, as Newton put it, "might work with considering Men, for the Belief of a Deity; and nothing," Newton went on, "can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that Purpose."40 And after... | |
| W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 páginas
...the first of his four letters to Dr. Bentley, he said, "When I wrote my Treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men, for the belief of a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."10 In his Opticks, likewise, he... | |
| Michael R. Matthews - 1989 - 180 páginas
...Newton saw his work as advancing the tradition of natural theology. He said he wrote the Principia with 'an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity.'8 And in endorsing the Design Argument, he said that discourse about God 'from the appearances... | |
| Detmar Doering - 1990 - 330 páginas
...selbst gesagt natte: "When I wrote my treatise about our System, I had an eye upon such principles äs might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose."2 Gerichtet war die natural religion... | |
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