 | S. Hutton - 1989 - 278 sivua
...Years have been rejected. To tell us that every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects,...derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1994 - 356 sivua
...Causes only are occult. ... To tell us that every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects,...derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow... | |
 | J. V. Field, Frank A. J. L. James - 1997 - 314 sivua
...in Query 31 of Opticks: 'To tell us that every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects, is to tell us nothing'.31 ;" ibid., 293v. " Home, 'Force, electricity, and the powers of living matter', op. cit.... | |
 | Alistair Cameron Crombie - 1995 - 756 sivua
...every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specified Quality by which it acts and produces its manifest Effects, is to tell us nothing : But to derive...three general Principles of Motion from Phenomena, and afterward to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all coporeal Things follow from those manifest... | |
 | A. Rupert Hall - 2002 - 324 sivua
...already quoted (p. 182): To tell us that every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects,...derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow... | |
 | John Desmond Bernal - 1997 - 326 sivua
...Years have been rejected. To tell us that every Species of Things is endow'd with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects,...derive two or three general Principles of Motion from phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow... | |
 | Joseph J. Kockelmans - 516 sivua
...define in the Principia, but whose import may be gathered from the following passage of his Opticks:13 "To tell us that every species of things is endowed...three general principles of motion from phenomena and afterward to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from these manifest... | |
 | Alan Musgrave - 1999 - 388 sivua
...essentialists: he gives precise deductive explanations; they mutter about essences and can explain nothing: To tell us that every Species of Things is endowed...derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Phaenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow... | |
 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 2000 - 368 sivua
...put a stop to the improvement of natural philosophy and therefore of late years have been rejected. To tell us that every species of things is endowed...produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing : But to dcri<ve Moo or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the... | |
 | Arthur T. Winfree - 2001 - 810 sivua
...in a similar case, that To tell us that every Species of Thing is endowed with an occult specifick Quality by which it acts and produces manifest Effects, is to tell us nothing. Opticks, 1730 However, the complex mechanisms of evolved systems must be unraveled by layers. In this... | |
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... and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step in philosophy, though the causes of those principles were not yet... 
