| Books - 1837 - 556 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,... | |
| John George Cochrane - 1837 - 548 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,... | |
| Baden Powell - Natural theology - 1838 - 352 pages
...also before said, that " the main business of natural philosophy is to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical f." And again, that from observing the order of the visible world, and so inferring creative intelligence,... | |
| William Whewell - Science - 1840 - 606 pages
...general ones, till the argument end in the most general." And in like manner in another Query f : " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the First Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." 3. Newton appears to have had... | |
| Edward Tatham - 1840 - 810 pages
...even if mistaken in his celestial forces securely trod in the exercise of philosophy and religion : " 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 material." — Newton's Optics, p. 343.... | |
| Theology - 1864 - 940 pages
...discoveries, says: "We are always meeting powers which surpass mere mechanism." Newton himself says: " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without framing hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which... | |
| William Whewell - Natural theology - 1845 - 208 pages
...valued ; " — and that " the business of natural philosophy is to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical:" — but we can go much further, and declare, still with 8 170 PALjETIOLOGY. Newton, that " this beautiful... | |
| William Whewell - History - 1847 - 716 pages
...another Query .f. : "The main business of natural philo* Opiiekn, Qu. 31, near the end. t Qu. 2fi. sophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the First Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." 3. Newton appears to have had... | |
| Baptists - 1852 - 1080 pages
...incline it to be otherwise refracted than after the usual manner. The first two may therefore be catted the sides of unusual refraction. We cannot better...philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses,and to deduce causes from effects until we come to the very First Cause, which certainly... | |
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