 | 1868 - 358 sivua
...words of Newton : — 1; The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena with* out feigning hypotheses, 'and to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." This phrase suggested to one a countless host... | |
 | British Medical Association, William Stokes - 1869 - 326 sivua
...that temper is. It would be difficult more aptly to describe it than by the words of Newton : — ' The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very First Cause, which certainly is not mechanical.' To discuss this simple phrase, and to expand... | |
 | sir William Withey Gull (1st bart.) - 1870 - 60 sivua
...arising out of the mechanical mode by which alone man can work upon material ; but, says Newton,* " The main business of natural philosophy is to argue...feigning hypotheses, and to deduce causes from effects until we come to the first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." Science may probably never be... | |
 | 1876 - 494 sivua
...referring to it, says ; " It would be difficult more aptly to describe it than by the words of Newton : ' The main business of natural philosophy is to argue from phenomena without feigning hypotheses, and deduce canses from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical.'... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1877 - 534 sivua
...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...to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, which certainly is not mechanical." * It has already been noticed that elasticity... | |
 | Royal Institution of Naval Architects - 1877 - 510 sivua
...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... | |
 | Charles Woodruff Shields - 1877 - 626 sivua
...phenomena from their forms or lawb, and in his " Principia," declared it to be the business of philosophy to deduce causes from effects till we come to the First Cause, which is certainly not mechanical. Robert Boyle, as an antagonist of Descartes, maintained, in his " Inquiry into the Final Causes of... | |
 | Victoria Institute (Great Britain) - 1878 - 564 sivua
...modern materialism. The main business, he says, of Natural Philosophy is to argue from phenomena, and deduce causes from effects, " till we come to the First Cause, which is certainly not mechanical." But this attempt to explain gravity, either by vibrations of ether, or differences of ethereal pressure,... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Washington (Washington, D.C.) - 1881 - 902 sivua
...hypotheses for explaining all things mechanically, and referring other causes to ' metaphysics ; ' whereas the main business of natural philosophy is to argue...to deduce causes from effects, till we come to the very first cause, — which certain!;/ is not mechanical." * Give to the ambitious kinematic artist... | |
 | Castleton - 1881 - 126 sivua
...Newton says, in his twenty-eight query, " The main business of this science is to argue from phenonema, 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,... | |
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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... 
