| Morris Kline - Mathematics - 1982 - 380 pages
...in animals? . . . And these things being rightly dispatched, 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? In the third edition of his Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy,... | |
| Alfred Rupert Hall - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 358 pages
...first, to which Leibniz particularly referred, Newton had asked: 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: . . .... | |
| Rudolf Kassner - 1969 - 884 pages
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| Edward Grant - Science - 1981 - 484 pages
...perception by images to the direct manner in which God knows things, Newton, in query 2o,370 assumed that "there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...perceives them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself."371 Not only does God perceive phenomena directly and immediately, whereas... | |
| Richard S. Westfall - Biography & Autobiography - 1983 - 934 pages
...page, and pasted in a new one which asserted, not that infinite space is the sensorium of God, but that "there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent,...who in infinite Space, as it were in his Sensory, [tanquam Sensorio suo] sees the things themselves intimately . . ,"59 Alas, he failed to alter every... | |
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