| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 pages
...Newton's own language, however, which alone can do justice to his sentiments on the present subject. " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical ; and not only to unfold the... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 pages
...Newton's own language, however, which alone can do justice to his sentiments on the present subject. " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical ; and not only to unfold the... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...or moving forces, so far as they urc applied to engines, and demonstrates the laws of motion. Hams. The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce rauses from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanital ; and not... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...pursued in natural philosophy, Newton says, in his Twenty-eighth Query, " the mainbusinessof this science is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very First Cause ; which certainly is not mechanical : and not only to unfold the... | |
| Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...pursued in natural philosophy, Newton says, in his Twenty-eighth Query, "the mainbusiness of this science is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very First Cause ; which certainly is not mechanical : and not only to unfold the... | |
| Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - Biography - 1833 - 584 pages
...in natural philosophy, Newton says, in his Twenty-eighth Quer)', " the main business of this science is to argue from phenomena, without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very First Cause ; which certainly is not mechanical : and not only to unfold the... | |
| William Whewell - Astronomy - 1833 - 416 pages
...28.) " to argue from phenomena without eigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." " Though every true step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the... | |
| William Whewell - Astronomy - 1836 - 420 pages
...with no dangers of this kind. " The business of natural philosophy is," he says, (Optics, Qu. 28.) " to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." " Though every true step... | |
| Natural theology - 1836 - 566 pages
...28.) " to argue from phenomena without signing hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." " Though every true step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the... | |
| English literature - 1837 - 522 pages
...with the pathology of disease. We may apply to medicine what Newton says of natural philosophy : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce causes from effects." There are some amongst ourselves, we regret to say,... | |
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