 | William Whewell - 1860 - 604 páginas
...in the most general!" And in like manner in another Query*: "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... | |
 | Gilbert Rorison - 1861 - 192 páginas
...linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity."73 " 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." 7* 34. In shutting out the Creator, then, from direct... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1883 - 818 páginas
...mechanically, and referring other causes to ' metaphysics ; ' whereas the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...first cause, — which certainly is not mechanical." * Give to the ambitious kinematic artist his cloud of sand, — or if he prefer the outfit, let him... | |
 | 1864 - 922 páginas
...himself says: " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without framing hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till...first cause, which certainly is not mechanical ; " and the following maxim is found in Cote's preface to Newton's Principia : " Caustic simplicissimae nulla... | |
 | 1867 - 524 páginas
...mechanically, and referring other causes to metaphysics. Whereas, the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and suchlike questions. What is there in places almost empty of matter, and whence is it that the sun and... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 406 páginas
...portentous speculations, appear the words of a great philosopher ! '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.' — (Newton.) CHAPTER VIlI. THE TRANSMUTATION SCHOOL.... | |
 | Robert Mackenzie Beverley - 1867 - 598 páginas
...portentous speculations, appear the words of a great philosopher ! ' 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.' — (Newton.) CHAPTER VIII. THE TRANSMUTATION SCHOOL.... | |
 | 1867 - 510 páginas
...Newton in the queries appended to his work on optics : — " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from facts until we come to the first cause, which is certainly not mechanical." Now the method Mr. Warington... | |
 | Henry Wentworth Acland - 1868 - 58 páginas
...more aptly to describe it than by the words of Newton : — ' The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,...very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical.' To discuss this simple phrase, and to expand it into its full significance, would be to recapitulate... | |
 | John Relly Beard - 1868 - 496 páginas
...in order to contradict atheistic views : — "Natural philosophy has it also for its main business to resolve these and such like questions. What is...and whence is it that the sun and planets gravitate toward one another without dense matter between them ? Whence is it that nature doth nothing in vain,... | |
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... the main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the mechanism of the world,... 
