 | Jeremy I. Pfeffer, Shlomo Nir - Science - 2000 - 560 pages
...property of matter, then of what is it a property? Newton refused to offer any answer to this question. Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravitv, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. ..and I frame no hypotheses. Others were... | |
 | Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - Philosophy - 2000 - 326 pages
...the world are parts of the Supreme God. and are therefore to he worshipped, but falsely." Up to now we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea through the force of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause for this. It is certain that it must... | |
 | Gottfried Wilhelm Freiherr von Leibniz, Samuel Clarke - Philosophy - 2000 - 132 pages
...whom a discourse from the appearances of things does certainly belong to natural philosophy. Up to now we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea through the force of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause for this. It is certain that it must... | |
 | Dennis Todd, Cynthia Wall, J. Paul Hunter - Literary Collections - 2001 - 332 pages
...celestial mechanics and an assertion of Newton's sincere if unprovable belief in God as all-present cause: Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...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... | |
 | Jean-Claude Pecker - Nature - 2001 - 616 pages
...substantially; for virtue cannot subsist without substance." ... "Hitherto we have explained the phenomena 5.5.7 of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but we have not yet assigned a cause of its power" ... "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 518 pages
...second edition, 1713), he says in a very celebrated passage: Hitherto we have explain'd the phaenomena of the heavens and of our sea, by the power of Gravity, but have not yet assign'd the cause of this power. This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates... | |
 | Hasan S. Padamsee - Science - 2002 - 708 pages
...effects, though not explained the cause. At the end of the Principia, Newton stuck to the facts [33]: Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of the power. . . I frame no hypothesis; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called... | |
 | Ivor Leclerc - Infinite - 2002 - 392 pages
...at the end of the Principia and in Query 3 1 in the Opticks. In the former he stated it as follows : '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... | |
 | Jean Louis Tassoul, Monique Tassoul - Science - 2004 - 312 pages
...Courtesy of Owen Gingerich. observed trajectories of different comets. Yet, as was noted by Newton: "Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not assigned the cause of this power." Pointing out that he had made no unreasonable hypothesis, he further... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...God; to discourse of whom 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,... 
