 | Mathematical Association - 1927 - 222 pagine
...to the cause of gravitation : " At the end of the 3rd book 1 have added some Questions. And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, cliusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for... | |
 | 1846 - 624 pagine
...instructive an example of steady persistence in that conjectural habit of mind. " To show," says Newton, " that I do not take gravity for an essential property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause, choosing to propose it by way of question because I am not yet satisfied about it for want... | |
 | Immanuel Kant - 1985 - 426 pagine
...1729 (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1962), Vol. II, pp. 413-414.] 85 ("And to show that I do not take gravity for an essential...property of bodies, I have added one question concerning its cause. . . ."] EXPLICATION 7 576 A moving force by which matters can directly act on one another... | |
 | Andrew Cunningham, Roger French - 1990 - 346 pagine
...Referring to the fact that he had added 'some Questions' to the end of the Opticks, he explained: And to show that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I ha ve added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because... | |
 | Max Jammer - 1999 - 290 pagine
...the second edition (1717), in the Advertisement to which Newton says: And to shew that I do not tahe Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, cbusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for... | |
 | Cambridge Philosophical Society - 1920 - 396 pagine
...explains in the Preface " . . .at the end of the Third Book I have added some questions. And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an Essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing rather to preface it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about... | |
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And to shew that I do not take Gravity for an essential Property of Bodies, I have added one Question concerning its Cause, chusing to propose it by way of a Question, because I am not yet satisfied about it for want of Experiments. 
