 | Library - 1827 - 712 sivua
...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. No more causes of natural things ought to be admitted than are known to exist, and are... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 418 sivua
...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 the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 442 sivua
...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 the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 sivua
...of natural philosophy is to argue from 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 only to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these, and such... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 sivua
...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 mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
 | 1833 - 426 sivua
...says, ' the main business of this science is to argue from phenomena,without feigning hypothesis, 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 the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
 | Lives - 1833 - 588 sivua
...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 mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
 | Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 sivua
...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 mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such... | |
 | Patrick Murphy - 1834 - 388 sivua
...illustrious Newton obliged, as he expresses it, " 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 elsewhere ; " Though every true step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1835 - 272 sivua
...to the doctrines of Natural Theology, and with the admissions that the business of physical science is "to deduce causes from effects till we come to the very First Cause," and that " every true step made in inductive philosophy is to be highly valued, because it brings us... | |
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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... 
