...methodological statement that "the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phaenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes...from effects, till we come to the very first cause", Newton remarks that the "oldest and most celebrated philosophers of Greece and Phoenicia" share his...

...argument for the existence of God. In his Opticks of 1704 he says: The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical What is there in places almost empty of matter, and whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate...

...No doubt this design was mysterious, but it was penetrable: The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions . . . and though every true step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the knowledge...

...No doubt this design was mysterious, but it was penetrable: The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions . . . and though every true step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the knowledge...

...in the most general." And in like manner in another Query:2 "The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the First Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." 3. Newton appears to have had a horror of the term...

...mechanically', referred 'other causes to Metaphysics'. He insisted that, the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phenomena without feigning Hypotheses,...Effects, till we come to the very first Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." Berkeley was intent on exposing Newton's deceit. He began his critique...

...Causes to Metaphy sicks: Whereas the main Business of natural Philosophy is to argue from Phaenomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes...these and such like Questions. What is there in places empty of Matter, and whence is it that the Sun and Planets gravitate towards one another, without dense...

...Optichs that Newton alludes to More's conceptions, when he says : The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such lihe questions. What is there in places almost empty of matter, and whence is it that the sun and planets...

...physical science. In the Opticks he does, indeed, say that 'the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical'.3 And he goes on to argue that reflection on phenomena shows us that there is a spiritual,...

...by the light of nature." And why does science show us all this? Because the business of science is to "deduce causes from effects, till we come to the...very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." In other words, the world may operate by mechanical causes, but as we trace them back, we deduce that...