 I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena;...  A Short History of Science - Side 319af William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler - 1917 - 474 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Aikin - 1808 - 730 sider
...theorems geometrically. The leading design of the " Principia" is, from certain phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then, from these forces to demonstrate the manner in which other phenomena are produced. The former is the end towards which the general propositions... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker - 1819 - 618 sider
...the theorems geometrically v The leading design of the Principia is, from certain phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then, from these forces to demonstrate the manner in which other -phenomena are produced. The former is the end towards which the general propositions... | |
 | William Emerson - 1825 - 506 sider
...world. For all the difficulty of philosophy consists in this ; from some of the principal phaenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature. And...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; all whiqh is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and revolutions of the... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 sider
...the theorems geometrically. The leading design of the Principia is, from certain phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then, from these forces to demonstrate the manner in which other phenomena are produced. The former is the end toward which the general propositions... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 sider
...Principia, says, " All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in 1837.] Elements of Logic. 303 this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate...end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed. In the third book we give an example of this in explanation of the system of the... | |
 | Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater - 1840 - 644 sider
...ever to have explained these phenomena by analysis-. In the preface to his Principle, Newton says: "All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist...end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed. In the third book, we give an example of this, in explanation of the system of... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1841 - 268 sider
...study of the Mathematics is to advance physical science, and our knowledge of the machinery of Nature. "For all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ;" until we can show, as it has been beautifully remarked by a popular poet, " That very law which... | |
 | Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 sider
...impossible ever to have explained these phenomena by analysis. In the preface to his Principia, Newton says: "All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist...end the general propositions in the first and second books are directed. In the third book, we give an example of this, in explanation of the system of... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - 1856 - 450 sider
...EMERSON. — " For all the difficulty of philosophy * consists in this : from some of the principal phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; — all of which is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and revolutions... | |
 | Arthur Young - 1864 - 198 sider
...ignorance of these forces, the fruitlessness of the endeavors after truth. The passages run thus . " All the difficulty of Philosophy seems to consist...these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena." " I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical... | |
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