 | William Emerson - 1825 - 506 pagine
...all the difficulty of philosophy consists in this ; from some of the principal phaenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature. And then, from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; all whiqh is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pagine
...he has followed the synthetic method of the ancients, and demonstrated the theorems geometrically. The leading design of the Principia is, from certain...other phenomena are produced. The former is the end toward which the general propositions in the first and second books are directed ; the third book affords... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 pagine
...philosophy seems to consist in 1837.] Elements of Logic. 303 this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed.... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 pagine
...Newton says: "All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this: from the phenomena of motions, to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed.... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1841 - 268 pagine
...Nature. "For all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this, from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of Nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ;" until we can show, as it has been beautifully remarked by a popular poet, " That... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 pagine
...Newton says: "All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this: from the phenomena of motions, to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed.... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - 1856 - 450 pagine
...all the difficulty of philosophy * consists in this : from some of the principal phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature ; and then, from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; — all of which is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1864 - 198 pagine
...thus . " All the difficulty of Philosophy seems to consist in this : — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of Nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena." " I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of nature by the same kind of... | |
 | William Leighton Jordan - 1867 - 12 pagine
...that — ' all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.' And then, after stating that on this principle he had, in the work above mentioned,... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1872 - 438 pagine
...all the difficulty of philosophy consists in this ; from some of the principal phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature. And then, from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; all of which is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and... | |
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I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena;... 
