 | Peter Achinstein - Science - 1985 - 402 pages
...different from the one he intended. In a well-known passage from Book III of the Principia, Newton writes: Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centers of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates... | |
 | Alexander Sissel Kohanski - Philosophy, Ancient - 1984 - 352 pages
...well as terrestrial phenomena. We are justified in calling it a hypothesis by his own admission that hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...and of our sea by the power of gravity. . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena .... | |
 | Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein - Science - 1985 - 616 pages
...10 is called the logarithm of y to the base 10 and is often denoted iog,0 y CHAPTER APPLE AND MOON Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to... | |
 | Bas C. Van Fraassen - Science - 1985 - 320 pages
...the same breath he insisted that his theory of gravity did explain celestial motions and the tides: Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but we have not yet assigned the cause of this power . . . hitherto I have not been able to discover the... | |
 | Steven C. Frautschi, Richard P. Olenick, Tom M. Apostol, David L. Goodstein - Science - 1986 - 616 pages
...than 5 s, how fast should Bobo ride? Bobo Waldo CHAPTER r UNIVERSA GRAVITATION AND CIRCULAR MOTION Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to... | |
 | Delo E. Mook, Thomas Vargish - Science - 1987 - 324 pages
...matters a competent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it." In the Principia itself Newton states: We have explained the phenomena of the heavens and...but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. . . . I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and... | |
 | Morris H. Shamos - Science - 1987 - 384 pages
...exceptions.9 This rule must follow, that the argument of induction may not he evaded hy hypotheses. Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea hy the power of gravity, hut have not yet assigned the cause of this power." This is certain, that... | |
 | Ruth Salvaggio - Classicism - 1988 - 192 pages
...not only that he would not frame hypotheses, but that they did not belong in experimental science. Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets. . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties... | |
 | David Park - Science - 1990 - 488 pages
...his position perfectly clear. In the magnificent General Scholium that ends the Principia he writes Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that operates to the very center of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force,... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - Philosophy - 1989 - 180 pages
...worshiped; but erroneously. from the appearances of things, does certainly belong to Natural Philosophy. Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates not according to... | |
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Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets,... 
