 | John Aikin - 1808 - 730 pages
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1814 - 582 pages
...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...to deduce " causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which " certainly is not mechanical ; and not only to unfold the me" chanism of the... | |
 | Duncan Mearns - 1818 - 212 pages
...Efficient Cause. ' The main business of natural ' philosophy,' according to Newton's view of the subject, ' is to argue from phenomena, ' without feigning hypotheses,...deduce > causes from effects, till we come to the very 1 first Cause, w hie h certainly is not mechanical? It may seem superfluous to argue the validity... | |
 | Edward William Grinfield - 1818 - 634 pages
...Creation. " The main business of natural philosophy," says Newton, as quoted by Professor Stewart, " is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses,...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 world,... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 pages
...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 very first cause,, which certainly is not mechanical. Therefore natural effects of the same kind are... | |
 | 1821 - 490 pages
...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...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 world,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1821 - 348 pages
...sentiments on the present subject. " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phe" nomena, 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... | |
 | 1822 - 536 pages
...hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically, and referring other causes to metaphysics ; whereas the main business of natural philosophy is to argue...to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." In his letter to the Hon. Mr. Boyle (Ibid. p.... | |
 | 1822 - 526 pages
...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 of fact and observation,... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...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 very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical. No more causes of natural things ought to be admitted... | |
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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... 
