| William Whewell - 1860 - 604 pages
...such as would be the causes of gravity, and of magnetick and electrick attractions, ' Optida, qu. 31. and of fermentations, if we should suppose that these...sense in which some writers had used the phrase, was by no means a frivolous or unmeaning object of inquiry. Bacon and others had used form as equivalent... | |
| Emanuel Swedenborg, T. M. Gorman - 1875 - 580 pages
...not yet discover'd. And therefore I scruple riot to propose the Principles of Motion above-mention'd, they being of very general Extent, and leave their Causes to be found out.' ' He has complained to me,' says Mr. Pemberton, in the concluding paragraph of his valuable View of... | |
| Harvey Goodwin (bp. of Carlisle.) - 1876 - 316 pages
...not yet discovered ; and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out." It is evidently with reference to the stop put to the improvement of natural philosophy by the supposition... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1878 - 702 pages
...not .yet discovered: and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above-mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out.' The conceptions of 'occult properties' and 'specific virtues' belong to that stage of speculation in... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1878 - 686 pages
...not yet discovered : and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above-mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out." The conceptions of 'occult properties' and 'specific virtues' belong to that stage of speculation in... | |
| Paul Carus - 1915 - 672 pages
...not yet discovered. And therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out. "Now by the help of these principles, all material things seem to have been composed of the hard and... | |
| Edwin Arthur Burtt - 1925 - 382 pages
...not yet discovered ? and therefore I scruple not, to propose the principles of motion abovementioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out."30 We shall return later to this fundamental contrast which Newton conceived to exist between... | |
| 1869 - 526 pages
...not yet discovered; and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out." Without solving the question propounded by Newton, Berthollet subsequently discovered one at any rate... | |
| Morris Kline - 1964 - 513 pages
...not yet discovered:* and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above mentioned, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to be found out.' In this task of describing nature Newton's most famous contribution was to unite heaven and Earth.... | |
| John Earman, John J. Stachel - 1977 - 482 pages
...not yet discover'd: And therefore I scruple not to propose the Principles of Motion above-mentioned, they being of very general Extent, and leave their Causes to be found out." The second Newtonian characterization appears in the Preface to the Principia. Having explained what... | |
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