 | Edwin Arthur Burtt - 2003 - 370 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...nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.6s In the second passage Newton specifically insists on the active divine control of the world... | |
 | Charles Taliaferro - 2005 - 482 sivua
...little sensoriums, are there seen and beheld by that which in us perceives and thinks. And tho' every step made in this philosophy brings us not immediately...nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued.'4 "Our little sensoriums" are the effective epicenters of our sensation: they are the machination... | |
 | Nicholas Churchich - 2005 - 540 sivua
...to Himself.97 Although, he adds in the Opticks, every true step made in this philosophy of science brings us not immediately to the knowledge of the first cause, yet it brings us nearer to it. Newton's physical theory is a combination of analytic and synthetic reasonings. In the Principia the... | |
 | Joe Milutis - 234 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." Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours... | |
 | Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka - 2005 - 384 sivua
...mathematization of nature should result in greater knowledge about God and his glorification. "And though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings...immediately to the Knowledge of the First Cause", says Newton, "yet it brings us nearer to it, and on that account is to be highly valued". 32 Thus the... | |
 | Intelligent Community The Intelligent Community, Barry Krusch - 2007 - 163 sivua
...first Cause, which is certainly not mechanical". In the final sentence of this Query, he concludes: "though every true Step made in this Philosophy brings...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued". ... A pivotal text . . . comes from the final English edition of the Opticks: "if natural Philosophy... | |
 | 174 sivua
...may be well to fortify this conclusion by two quotations from the latter part of Newton's Optics. " Though every true step made in this philosophy brings...to it, and on that account is to be highly valued." Again, he writes, " If natural philosophy in all its parts, by pursuing this method (of analysis and... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1874 - 396 sivua
...of mere mechanical causes and effects is the Infinite Cause of all. Sir Isaac Newton has truly said, "though every true step made in this philosophy brings...of the First Cause, yet it brings us nearer to it." Let the chain of material causation be lengthened out ever so far, we only feel however at the topmost... | |
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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. 
