Whereas 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 Foreign Quarterly Review - Side 1691837Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| John Aikin - 1808 - 730 sider
...the following miscellaneous observations, which may serve as a specimen of the OPINIONS of Newton. 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 тегу first cause, which certainly... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 sider
...Newton's own language, however, which alone can do justice to his sentiments on the present subject. ** 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... | |
| Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 sider
...the following miscellaneous observations, which may serve as a specimen of the opinions of Newton : 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... | |
| 1821 - 490 sider
...philosopher.—lie not only saw the principle, but obeyed it." Yet this great man tells him and the world—" 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... | |
| 1822 - 536 sider
...hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically, and referring other causes to metaphysics ; whereas 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... | |
| 1822 - 1112 sider
...expected, or where, if expected, they are not to be traced;" but its object is, as Newton expresses it, " to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which is certainly not mechanical *." SECT. XVI. —" The opinions... | |
| 1822 - 526 sider
...occultarum, seu mechanicae, in philosophia experimental! locum non habent." (Newt. Opera, vol. iv. p. 493.) " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses," and when once the inductive philosophy is departed from, and the imagination, instead... | |
| Library - 1827 - 712 sider
...the following miscellaneous observations, which may serve as a specimen of the OPINIONS of Newton. 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... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 sider
...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 from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce rauses from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 sider
...Newton's own language, however, which alone can do justice to his sentiments on the present subject. " 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... | |
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