 | Adolph Judah Snow - 1926 - 270 sivua
...cause, which certainly is not mechanical . . . and, though every step made in this Philosophy (Natural Philosophy) brings us not immediately to the Knowledge...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.' 1 It is now clear that the foundation of Newton's mathematical physics was free from any hypothesis... | |
 | Frederick DeLand Leete - 1928 - 396 sivua
...beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks; and though every true step made in this philosophy v/ brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued." KK.VE ANTOINB FERCHAULT DE REAUMUR, French naturalist and physicist, argued in this manner for mystical... | |
 | 1877 - 804 sivua
...them, and comprehends them wholly by their immediate presence to himself? And though every true step in this philosophy brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the first cause, yet it brings ns nearer to it, and on that account it is to be highly valued." FRENCH AWD GERMAN.1 Critics often... | |
 | George Lachmann Mosse, Seymour Drescher, David Warren Sabean, Allan Sharlin - 334 sivua
...to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions . . . and though every true step made in this philosophy brings...nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.71 Thus Newton is his Queries to his Opticks. He made the same point in the General Scholium... | |
 | H. G. Koenigsberger - 1986 - 300 sivua
...to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions . . . and though every true step made in this philosophy brings...nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.71 Thus Newton is his Queries to his Opticks. He made the same point in the General Scholium... | |
 | H. G. Koenigsberger - 1986 - 294 sivua
...to unfold the mechanism of the world, but chiefly to resolve these and such like questions . . . and though every true step made in this philosophy brings...nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.71 Thus Newton is his Queries to his Opticks. He made the same point in the General Scholium... | |
 | W. K. Thomas, Warren U. Ober - 1989 - 348 sivua
...more than to find it useful for that purpose."10 In his Opticks, likewise, he said, about Science, "Though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings...nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued."11 All these statements find their parallel in Alexander Pope's summary statement, about the... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 sivua
...Kepler, to the space-based concept of Newton. The pendulum will swing again. For all his pre-eminence, us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause,...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued. As we shall see in Vol. 2, Newton's concept of absolute space as the sensory (or sensorium) of God... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 2000 - 474 sivua
...intelligent, omnipresent"; and that although philosophy did not bring us to immediate knowledge of this cause, "yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued" (Newton, 1730/1979, p. 369)9 In Query 31 of his Optiks, Newton conjoined his account of the macro world,... | |
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 sivua
...into our little Sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks. And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued. (Opticks) In a letter to a friend, Richard Bentley, in 1692, Newton further explains his motivations... | |
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And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings us not immediately to the Knowledge of the first Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued. 
