 | Roger H. Stuewer - 1989 - 410 oldal
..."experimental philosophy," and whose achievement is summed up by him in the General Scholium of 1713 as having "explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity."27 Fundamentally, the enterprise is deductive and systematic, basing itself on certain empirical... | |
 | Harald Fritzsch - 1994 - 318 oldal
...accounts for his universal fame. At the end of the Principia, Newton says of his theory of gravitation: Hitherto, we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centers of the Sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 1994 - 312 oldal
...operation. The concluding remarks of the General Scholium that he appended to his Principia are well known: Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...assigned the cause of this power. This is certain thai it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets, without... | |
 | D. H. Mellor - 1995 - 276 oldal
...this not entail unmediated action at a distance? No: for as Newton (1713) says, although hy his theory we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, [we] have not yet assigned the cause of this power. ... Hitherto I have not been able to discover the... | |
 | John Earman, John D. Norton - 1998 - 604 oldal
...inferences which realize Newton's stronger ideal of empirical success in later editions of Principia. Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centers of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force; that operates... | |
 | Morris Dickstein - 1998 - 468 oldal
...Leibniz's objection "that gravity will be a scholastic occult quality or else the effect of a miracle":43 "Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. . . . [H]itherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena,... | |
 | D. H. Mellor - 1998 - 164 oldal
...action at a distance? No, for as Newton (1713 book III, general scholium) says, although by his theory we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, [we] have not yet assigned the cause of this power. ... Hitherto I have not been able to discover the... | |
 | Max Jammer - 1999 - 290 oldal
..."hypotheses non fingo" at the end of Booh III in the General Scholium, where he says emphatically : Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens...but have not yet assigned the cause of this power . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena,... | |
 | Alan Musgrave - 1999 - 388 oldal
...the same breath he insisted that his theory of gravity did explain celestial motions and the tides: Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but we have not yet assigned the cause of this power ... hitherto 1 have not been able to discover the... | |
 | Roberto Torretti - 1999 - 532 oldal
...inspired Newton's dignified words in the General Scholium he added to Principia in 1713: Thus far I have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the force of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of gravity. This force must arise in any case... | |
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Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. This is certain, that it must proceed from a cause that penetrates to the very centres of the sun and planets,... 
