 I offer this work as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena;...  American Quarterly Review - Pagina 303geredigeerd door - 1837Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Morris Kline - 1964 - 513 pagina’s
...mathematical principles of philosophy [science]; for all the difficulty in philosophy seems to consist in this— from the phenomena of motions to investigate...end the general propositions in the first and second book are directed. In the third book we give an example of this in the explication of the system of... | |
 | Morris Kline - 1985 - 270 pagina’s
...principles of philosophy [science]; for all the difficulty in philosophy seems to consist in this—from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces...these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena;... for by propositions mathematically demonstrated in the first book, we there derive from the celestial... | |
 | Charles E. Hummel - 1986 - 300 pagina’s
...The preface to the Principles states, "The whole burden of philosophy [science] seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate...these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena."" Since Newton wrote little about his actual method, it must be discovered largely from his practice.... | |
 | Robert Hanbury Brown - 1986 - 210 pagina’s
...regular figures, or are repelled and recede from each other.... the whole programme of science is, from the phenomena of motions, to investigate the forces of nature and from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.' Descartes and Newton were both expressing the... | |
 | Pat Langley - 1987 - 374 pagina’s
...the first edition, Newton says: "... the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this—from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena " (Newton 1636, pp. xvii-xviii) He is even clearer on the final page of book III: "In [experimental]... | |
 | George Gamow - 1988 - 372 pagina’s
...mathematical principles of [natural] philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena. . . . I wish we could derive ... the phenomena of Nature . . . from mechanical principles, for I am... | |
 | Richard W. Miller - 1987 - 632 pagina’s
...explanation of his own success in pursuing the particular strategy announced in the Preface to the Principia: "from the phenomena of motions to investigate the...from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena. . . . [B]y the propositions mathematically demonstraied in the former Books, in the third 1 derive... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 1989 - 180 pagina’s
...as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this — from the phenomena of motions to investigate...first and second Books are directed. In the third Book I give an example of this in the explication of the System of the World; for by the propositions mathematically... | |
 | Julian B. Barbour - 1988 - 784 pagina’s
...Hence his remark that we have already quoted: 'For the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this - from the phenomena of motions to investigate...these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.' The climax of the work is thus in Book III, in which Newton, as he announces in the Preface, gives... | |
 | David A. Dilworth - 1989 - 252 pagina’s
...as the mathematical principles of philosophy, for the whole burden of philosophy seems to consist in this: from the phenomena of motions to investigate...and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena."51 As this passage makes clear, Newton espoused the Baconian and Cartesian method of mathematical... | |
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