 | Edward Grant - 2007
...Improvement of natural Philosophy, and therefore of late Years have been rejected. To tell us that every Species of things is endow'd with an occult...acts and produces manifest Effects, is to tell us nothing.51 I have thus far indicated numerous departures of early modern natural philosophy and science... | |
 | Béatrice Longuenesse - 2007 - Liczba stron: 269
...his Optics, "that every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specific quality [like gravity] by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing."7 If Hegel's statements about astronomy are not always felicitous, in the present case at... | |
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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... 
