 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;...  American Quarterly Review - Page 303edited by - 1837Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Newton - Celestial mechanics - 1803 - 344 pages
...demonftrate the other phenomena; and to this end the general propofitions in the firfl and fecond book are directed. In the third book we give an example of this in the explication of the Syftem of the World; for by the propofitions mathematically demonftrated in... | |
 | John Aikin - Biography - 1808 - 730 pages
...theorems geometrically. The leading design of the " Principia" is, from certain phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then, from these forces to demonstrate the manner in which other phenomena are produced. The former is the end towards which the general propositions... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker - Philosophy - 1819 - 618 pages
...the theorems geometrically v The leading design of the Principia is, from certain phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then, from these forces to demonstrate the manner in which other -phenomena are produced. The former is the end towards which the general propositions... | |
 | William Emerson - Mechanical engineering - 1825 - 506 pages
...world. For all the difficulty of philosophy consists in this ; from some of the principal phaenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature. And...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; all whiqh is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and revolutions of the... | |
 | Library - 1827 - 712 pages
...the theorems geometrically. The leading design of the Principia is, from certain phenomena of motion to investigate the forces of nature, and then, from these forces to demonstrate the manner in which other phenomena are produced. The former is the end toward which the general propositions... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1841 - 268 pages
...our knowledge of the machinery of Nature. "For all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this, from the phenomena of motions to investigate...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ;" until we can show, as it has been beautifully remarked by a popular poet, " That very law which... | |
 | Patrick Edward Dove - Apologetics - 1856 - 450 pages
...EMERSON. — " For all the difficulty of philosophy * consists in this : from some of the principal phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena; — all of which is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and revolutions... | |
 | Arthur Young - Philosophy - 1864 - 198 pages
...endeavors after truth. The passages run thus . " All the difficulty of Philosophy seems to consist in this : — from the phenomena of motions to investigate...these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena." " I wish we could derive the rest of the phenomena of nature by the same kind of reasoning from mechanical... | |
 | William Leighton Jordan - 1867 - 12 pages
...preface to his ' Principia,' remarks that — ' all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate...these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.' And then, after stating that on this principle he had, in the work above mentioned, demonstrated the motion... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - Authors, English - 1872 - 438 pages
...philosophy in the world. For all the difficulty of philosophy consists in this ; from some of the principal phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena ; all of which is to be done upon mechanical principles. Thus, from the distances and revolutions of... | |
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