 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - Science - 2003 - 370 pages
...propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive...bodies, and the laws of motion and of gravitation, were discovered."24 With these illuminating assertions in mind we must press as exceedingly important the... | |
 | Hasan S. Padamsee - Science - 2002 - 708 pages
...physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. . . And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to laws which we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial... | |
 | Anders Hald - Mathematics - 2005 - 608 pages
...Kepler's third law. With regard to his own explanation by means of universal gravitation, he remarks that "to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to laws which we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motions of the celestial... | |
 | Ellwood Johnson - Puritan movements in literature - 2005 - 300 pages
...study the behavior, or properties, of gravity without knowing what gravity is. "It is enough," he said, "that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws which we have explained . . ." (1687, 547). Newton's method drew attention to itself for itself, provoked acrimonious debate,... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Collections - 2006 - 512 pages
...propositions are inferred from the phenomena, and afterwards rendered general by induction. Thus it was that the impenetrability, the mobility, and the impulsive...us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and acts according to the laws which we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motions... | |
 | Howard Smith, Ph.D. - Religion - 2010 - 304 pages
...physical, whether of occult qualities, or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy. . . . And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist...act according to the laws which we have explained." With Darwin's discovery of natural selection, and as other branches of science (electromagnetism, for... | |
 | Gerald Lebau - Science - 2007 - 334 pages
...to discover the cause of these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis ... And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist,...act according to the laws which we have explained". Though he there disclaimed any hypothesis as to the "cause" of gravity, the rest of his sentence is... | |
 | Science - 1927 - 614 pages
...particular propositions are inferred from thé phenomena, and afterward rendered général by induction... And to us, it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to thé laws which we hâve explained, and abundantly serves to account for ail thé motions of thé celestial... | |
 | John M Charap - 2002 - 254 pages
...no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis. . . . And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and acts according to the laws which we have explained, and abundantly serves to account for all the motion... | |
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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... 
