| David C. Lindberg, Mary Jo Nye, Roy Porter, Ronald L. Numbers - Mathematics - 2003 - 714 pages
...everywhere, he constitutes duration and space." In his Queries to the Opticks, Newton described a God "who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately ... by their immediate presence to himself."6 Newton's picture of a God who was literally mindful of... | |
| Charles Taliaferro - Philosophy - 2005 - 482 pages
...(end of Query 28), Newton assimilated space to God's sensorium; Does it not appear from phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself: of which things the images only carried through the organs of sense... | |
| F. LeRon Shults - Religion - 2005 - 340 pages
...pointing to the Creator. In the Opticks he asks rhetorically: "Does it not appear from phenomena that there is a being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...perceives them; and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself?"11 The idea of absolute space as the sensorium dei appealed to Newton... | |
| Nicholas Churchich - Philosophy - 2005 - 540 pages
...not mechanical and that everything in it has been designed for a purpose, Newton is convinced that 'there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...space, as it were in his sensory, sees the things wholly by their immediate presence to Himself.97 Although, he adds in the Opticks, every true step... | |
| Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - Philosophy - 2005 - 384 pages
...that Substance? And these things being rightly dispatch'd. does it not appear from the Penomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself; ... 22 We claim that it is this concept of God, as a geometer and a... | |
| Max Jammer - Science - 2006 - 332 pages
...used the term "Sensorium" or "Sensory" when he wrote: "Does it not appear from the Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself."15 In short, God's omnipresence warrants the actual existence of an... | |
| Joe Milutis - 234 pages
...that Substance? And these things being rightly dispatch'd, does it not appear from Phaenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...Sensory, sees the things themselves intimately, and throughly perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself: Of which... | |
| Dale Jacquette - Science - 2001 - 420 pages
...Bayle's treatment 28 Newton, Opticks, Book III, Query 28, p. 370: "Does it not appear from phenomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...perceives them and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself. . ." See Hurlbutt, Hume, Newton, and the Design Argument, p. 10: "Infinite... | |
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