 The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever.  A treatise on astronomy - Pagina 140di Olinthus Gilbert Gregory - 1802Visualizzazione completa - Informazioni su questo libro
 | S. Kleiner - 1993 - 364 pagine
...the earth and in the planets. RULE III The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. For since the qualities of bodies are only known to us by experiments, we are to hold for universal... | |
 | Lynn McDonald - 1996 - 412 pagine
...edition of Mathematical Principles: 3. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. (398) We are not to relinquish the evidence of experiments for the sake of dreams and vain fictions... | |
 | Louis K. Dupré - 1993 - 318 pagine
...Principia Mathematica, bk. 3, rule 3, "The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever." Those qualities include in the first place extension, but also hardness, impenetrability, mobility,... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1994 - 356 pagine
...most important statement of epistemology. The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever. The extended discussion of Rule III, addressed to Cartesians, to mechanists in general, and to Leibniz... | |
 | Hugh LaFollette, Niall Shanks - 1996 - 300 pagine
...laboratory. As Newton put it in his Third Rule: "The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever" ([ 1 687] 1 962:... | |
 | Dafydd Gibbon - 1996 - 1278 pagine
...the new science (as Newton put it in his Third Rule of Reasoning) was that "the qualities of bodies which are found to belong to all bodies within the reach of our experiment are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever"10. Critics like Hume... | |
 | Barry Gower - 1997 - 296 pagine
...possible, assign the same causes'. Rule III: 'The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of bodies whatsoever'. Rule IV: 'In experimental philosophy we are to look upon propositions inferred... | |
 | Max Jammer - 1997 - 260 pagine
...characteri2es as universal qualities of all bodies those qualities that "admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...to all bodies within the reach of our experiments." *0 Extension, impenetrability, and mobility exist in the whole body because they exist in the parts;... | |
 | Christopher B. Kaiser - 1997 - 480 pagine
...allowed as 'universal qualities of all bodies whatsoever' only those 'which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong...to all bodies within the reach of our experiments' (Principia, ed. F. Cajori, p. 398). Whewell had regarded it as 'a mere rule of prudence' but accepted... | |
 | Stephen Houlgate - 1998 - 392 pagine
...the universal properties of all bodies: The qualities of bodies, which admit neither intensification nor remission of degrees, and which are found to belong to all the bodies within the reach of our experiments, are to be esteemed the universal qualities of all bodies... | |
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