| John Aikin - 1808 - 730 pagine
...the following miscellaneous observations, which may serve as a specimen of the OPINIONS of Newton. The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...to deduce causes from effects till we come to the тегу first cause, which certainly is not mechanical. No more caiues of natural things ought to... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pagine
...or moving forces, so far as they urc applied to engines, and demonstrates the laws of motion. Hams. The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce rauses from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanital ; and not... | |
| 1832 - 642 pagine
...some precepts which have been most admirably illustrated in the works of this illustrious philosopher. "The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects until we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical ; and not only to unfold the... | |
| 1832 - 640 pagine
...some precepts which have been most admirably illustrated in the works of this illustrious philosopher. "The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,and to deduce causes from effects until we come to the very First Cause, which certainly... | |
| 1837 - 556 pagine
...with the pathology of disease. We may apply to medicine what Newton says of natural philosophy : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce causes from effects." There are some amongst ourselves, we regret to say,... | |
| 1837 - 522 pagine
...with the pathology of disease. We may apply to medicine what Newton says of natural philosophy : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce causes from effects." There are some amongst ourselves, we regret to say,... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1837 - 548 pagine
...with the pathology of disease. We may apply to medicine what Newton says of natural philosophy : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce causes from effects." There are some amongst ourselves, we regret to say,... | |
| William Whewell - 1840 - 606 pagine
...general ones, till the argument end in the most general." And in like manner in another Query f : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...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... | |
| 1864 - 940 pagine
...discoveries, says: "We are always meeting powers which surpass mere mechanism." Newton himself says: " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without framing hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which... | |
| William Whewell - 1847 - 716 pagine
...some other cause than matter, he says, " Later philosophers banish the consideration of such a cause out of Natural Philosophy, feigning hypotheses for...mechanically, and referring other causes to metaphysics." In the celebrated Scholium at the end of the Principia, he says, " Whatever is not deduced from the... | |
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