 | Isaac Newton - 1730 - Liczba stron: 432
...Effects, is to tell us nothing: But to derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from thofe manifeft Principles^ would be a very great ftep in Philofophy, though the Caufes of thofe Principles... | |
 | Frederick Beasley - 1822 - Liczba stron: 584
...properties and actions of all coporeal things follow from these principles; this would be a great progress in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet discovered. Again — 1 have explained the phenomena of the Heavens and the sea by the force of gravity; but the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - Liczba stron: 842
...derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how th« properties and actions of all corporeal things follow...causes of those principles were not yet discovered. Newton. The gradus, a Roman measure, may be translated л step, or the half of a passus or pace. Arbuthnol... | |
 | Stephen Peter Rigaud - 1838 - Liczba stron: 208
...at the end of the Optics. " To derive two or three general principles of motion " from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the " properties and...causes of those " principles were not yet discovered." Indeed the ether, of which the existence has been so repeatedly and so generally assumed, was only... | |
 | William Whewell - 1840 - Liczba stron: 606
...the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of those...discovered : and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion above maintained, they being of very general extent, and leave their causes to... | |
 | William Whewell - 1840 - Liczba stron: 606
...effects, is to tell us nothing : but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles... | |
 | 1841 - Liczba stron: 530
...effects, is to tell us nothing : but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest principles, would be a great step in philosophy, though the causes of these principles... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - Liczba stron: 662
...effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions...discovered : and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of motion and leave their causes to be found out. У1 e IV ton/ Op t ick s p. 377. frùtier,... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - Liczba stron: 654
...effects, is to tell us nothing: but to derive two 'or three, general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions...very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of Ihose principles were not yet discovered : and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1850 - Liczba stron: 676
...nothing: but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomcna, and afterwards lo tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal...very great step in Philosophy, though the causes of Ihosc principles were not yet discovered : and therefore I scruple not to propose the principles of... | |
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But to derive two or three general principles of motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes... 
