 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1964 - 513 pages
...[science]; for all the difficulty in 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; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second book are directed.... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...philosophy. For all the difficulty 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." Next Newton defined his terms. They are the basic quantities of classical physics,... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - History - 1970 - 188 pages
...states that "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." 80 In Query 31, added to the second edition of the Opticks, he is somewhat more explicit... | |
 | Charles Henry Alexandrowicz - Law - 1972 - 282 pages
...philosophy; for all the difference 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 other phenomena.41 The force of Newton's work would not be fully felt until the eighteenth century,... | |
 | Edward Grant Ruestow - Philosophy - 1973 - 192 pages
...affirm that "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." 4S But the Aristotelian and Newtonian understanding of motion were literally worlds... | |
 | Arthur Quinn - Philosophy - 1977 - 328 pages
...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. "Whether attractive or impulsive" — once again, a passing phrase evoked an existing... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1982 - 380 pages
...philosophy, for the whole burden in 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; and to this end the general propositions in the first and second Books are directed.... | |
 | Z. Bechler - Biography & Autobiography - 1982 - 264 pages
...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: and to this end the general proposition in the first and second Books are directed.... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...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 . . . 51 Whereas the invisible mechanisms of orthodox mechanical philosophy, such as... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1985 - 270 pages
...[science]; for all the difficulty in 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;... for by propositions mathematically demonstrated in the first book, we there derive... | |
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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;... 
