 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - History - 1925 - 382 pages
...propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive...laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered." 24 With these illuminating assertions in mind we must press as exceedingly important the fourth Rule... | |
 | Norwood Russell Hanson - Science - 1979 - 260 pages
...VII, p. 202 and Newton, 'I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity. . .it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which we have explained' (Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (yd ed.), Conclusion. PAGE 53 1 'A chapter of lucky accidents'... | |
 | Norwood Russell Hanson - Positrons - 1963 - 266 pages
...Principia, Conclusion : ' I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity. . .it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws we have explained.' 2 N. Bohr, Dialed ica, I (1947). 3 Cf. ch. vn, and cf. Patterns of Discovery, ch.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1877 - 540 pages
...no hypothesis ; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis. ... . To us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according tothe laws which we have explained." Still twenty-five years later than the date of these oft-quoted... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - History - 1970 - 188 pages
...or cause, but makes the best of the situation by confining himself to laying out its laws, for "... to us it is enough that gravity does really exist,...explained, and abundantly serves to account for all motions of the celestial bodies, and of our sea." 59 So far we have pointed out that according to Newton... | |
 | Margaret J. Osler, Paul Lawrence Farber - Religion - 2002 - 372 pages
...propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive...laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered. 33 Before commenting on this puzzling text, it is worth noting that in the very next paragraph Newton... | |
 | Bas C. Van Fraassen - Science - 1985 - 320 pages
...have not been able to discover the cause of ... gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses ... to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial bodies, and... | |
 | Morris H. Shamos - Science - 1987 - 384 pages
...Newton speculates on the nature of "actionat-a-distance" forces. and the impulsive force of hodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered....according to the laws which we have explained, and ahundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial hodies, and of our sea. And now we... | |
 | Pat Langley - Computers - 1987 - 374 pages
...are to be inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive...laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered." (Newton 1636, p. 547) The last assertion—"Thus it was that the... laws of motion and gravitation... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 978 pages
...the phenomena and afterward rendered general by deduction ... it is enough that gravity really does exist and act according to the laws which we have...abundantly serves to account for all the motions of celestial bodies and of our sea- (Principia, ed. Thayer, p. 45) For Newton the empirical philosopher,... | |
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... whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. In this philosophy, particular propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus... 
