 | Peter J. Tamburro - Games & Activities - 2016 - 598 pages
...plain, stern rule of procedure : the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist of this : from the phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.1s To follow any other course than the mathematical in this was quite simply to fail... | |
 | Reijer Hooykaas - Religion - 2000 - 182 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'. Newton's empiricism, like that of Bacon, Pascal, Hooke and Boyle, had a theological... | |
 | Margaret J. Osler - Science - 2000 - 350 pages
...impulsive ... 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."71 There is a constructivist orientation here. Newton's focus is on the technician... | |
 | Antonio T. De Nicolás - Education - 2000 - 582 pages
...account just given. Here are additional details. According to Newton the main task of physics was to find the forces of nature, "and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena." the other phenomena being bodily motions. Descartes's view, although earlier in time,... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - Science - 2001 - 778 pages
...quoted: 'For the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this - from the phenomena of morions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.' The climax of the work is thus in Book III, in which Newton, as he announces in the... | |
 | James Richard Moore - Science - 2002 - 456 pages
...Principia: '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.'23 In these days it is not worthwhile to claim that one knows exactly what Newton... | |
 | Lynn Sumida Joy - History - 2002 - 332 pages
...specified 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."74 Newton thus perpetuated one of Descartes' s key assumptions, the assumption that... | |
 | Ralph Blumenau - Philosophers - 2002 - 644 pages
...states that "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". On the face of it, this statement about "all the difficulties of philosophy" seems... | |
 | I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 518 pages
...philosophy. For all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this, from the phaenomena of motions to investigate the forces of Nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phaenomena ... In the third book we give an example of this in the explication of the System... | |
 | Jay D. Humphrey - Medical - 2002 - 780 pages
...I. Newton: "All the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist of this: from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena." 11.1 References Bowen RM (1980) Incompressible porous media models by use of the... | |
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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;... 
