 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - Discoveries in science - 1877 - 534 pages
...Mag., 1861, vol. xxi, p. 505. t Discourse on Study of Natural Philosophy, part ii, chap. i, sec. 68. as 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." * It has already been noticed... | |
 | Royal Institution of Naval Architects - Naval architecture - 1877 - 510 pages
...mechanical periodicals The Engineer and Engineering. Bearing in remembrance Newton's dictum, " The business of natural philosophy is to argue " from...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects, ' I propose to take up the subject from the point of view stated at page 19 of the beforementioned... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1881 - 902 pages
...hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically, and referring other causes to ' metaphysics ; ' whereas 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 certain!;/ is not mechanical." * Give to the ambitious... | |
 | John James Lias - Miracles - 1883 - 300 pages
...J But, with submission, we would venture to suggest that such mirth is a little out of place on * " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...to deduce causes from effects until we come to the first cause, which certainly is not mechanical " (Newton, " Optics," p. 384). f Mr. M. Arnold, in his... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - Science - 1883 - 440 pages
...philosophy 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." * Give to the ambitious kinematic artist his cloud of sand, — or if he prefer the outfit, let him... | |
 | W. S. Cassedy - Solar system - 1888 - 236 pages
...apothegm of Sir Isaac Newton may be quoted, as showing the popular method of investigating truth, he says: "The main business of natural philosophy is to argue "from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and ds"duce causes from effects." The founder of the Copernican system, not only does not argue from phenomena... | |
 | Royal Institution of Naval Architects - Naval architecture - 1889 - 604 pages
...discourage such studies, let him read the following justification, given at the same time by Newton — " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without figuring hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effect, till we come to the very first cause, which... | |
 | James Thompson Bixby - Religion and science - 1889 - 252 pages
...are the words of the greatest of scientific authorities — " is to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." Now, it is just this path and end that religion pursues. It is true that of late men of science have... | |
 | W. Sedgwick - Argon - 1896 - 308 pages
...that it alone of all books has undertaken the task assigned to science by Newton, when he said that " the main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypothesis, and to deduce cause from effect until we come to the very First Cause," as we have already... | |
 | William Sedgwick - Human beings - 1902 - 316 pages
...effects. Moreover, no excuse for this state of things is to be found in Newton. For Newton said that "... the main business of Natural Philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects. . . ."l And Newton not only said that it was the main business of Natural Philosophy to deduce causes... | |
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Whereas the main Business of natural Philosophy 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 Mechanism of... 
