 | Philip J. Regal - Philosophy - 1990 - 383 pages
...Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. ("The whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this ... to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.") With science, a new way of thinking evolved that has influenced all Westerners to... | |
 | Hankins - Medical - 1990 - 276 pages
...statement 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'.1 D'Alembert proposed to skip the step of passing from phenomena to forces and from... | |
 | Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1990 - 434 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. . . . Of course, mathematical principles, to Newton as to Galileo, were quantitative... | |
 | Vladimir Zalmanovich Parton, Evgeniĭ Mikhaĭlovich Morozov - Science - 1989 - 316 pages
...philosophy, ie physics, and the purpose of physics, in his view. is "this: from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena" [1]. This was the task Newton performed in the most impressive manner by creating... | |
 | Peter Michael Harman, Alan E. Shapiro - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 552 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 other phenomena... 38 • It is no accident that this Preface shares material with several parts of... | |
 | G.A. Maugin - Mathematics - 1993 - 294 pages
...force . . . 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. lsaac Newton (Preface to the first edition of the Principia, 1685). 1.1 Newton's viewpoint... | |
 | Matt Cartmill - History - 1996 - 352 pages
...Newton in the preface to his Principia, "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 ... I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of Nature by the same kind of... | |
 | Harald Fritzsch - Biography & Autobiography - 1994 - 318 pages
...of technology. In his introduction, Newton describes his approach to physical phenomena: "From the phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena." In the three hundred years since the appearance of the Principia, we have witnessed... | |
 | Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J. Silverman - Mathematics - 1999 - 358 pages
...Newton wrote, "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."57 Note that the "demonstration," as Newton described his method, came after the "forces... | |
 | Vinay Ambegaokar - Mathematics - 1996 - 252 pages
...energy ... 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 . . . Isaac Newton Probability enters theoretical physics in two important ways: in... | |
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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;... 
