 | I. Bernard Cohen, George E. Smith - 2002 - 518 oldal
...the very centers of the Sun and Planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phaenomena, and I feign no hypotheses. For whatever is not deduc'd from the phaenomena, is to be called... | |
 | D. Villemaire - 2002 - 318 oldal
...the effects of a certain kind of force, we call that force gravity. "But hitherto I have been unable to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses." (Principles. II, 314) The ultimate nature of gravity is unknown; it is not necessary for science that... | |
 | John M. Charap - 2002 - 262 oldal
...the square of the distance." But as to its cause, its real nature, he was deliberately noncommittal: "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be... | |
 | Mario Livio - 2005 - 367 oldal
...on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances. . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. Second, there was the disturbing conflict between special relativity and Newton's notion of gravity.... | |
 | Dov M. Gabbay, John Woods - 2008 - 750 oldal
...generalized by induction [Duhem. 1904-1905, pp. 190-191]. Here is the relevant part ofthe General Scholium: 2 But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced [sic] from phenomena is to be called an hypothesis;... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 oldal
...out of the gravitations towards the several particles of which the body of the sun is composed; but I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phasnomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to have no... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - 2006 - 512 oldal
...in receding from the sun decreases accurately in the duplicate proportion of the distances as far as the orb of Saturn, as evidently appears from the quiescence of the aphelions of the plants; nay, and even to the remotest aphelions of the comets; if those aphelions are also quiescent.... | |
 | Steven Horst - 2007 - 240 oldal
...heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but have not yet assigned the cause of this power. . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses." Exactly what Newton himself understood by "I frame [or, in a better translation "feign"] no hypotheses"... | |
 | 2007 - 708 oldal
...instance, denounced Newtonian gravity as being an occult quality. Indeed, as Newton himself claimed: "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses" (ibid.). Newton's thought was that an explanation cannot be faulted on the grounds that it does not... | |
 | David M. Toomey - 2007 - 412 oldal
...virtue on all sides to immense distances, decreasing always as the inverse square of the distances — But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses. Hypotheses have no place in... | |
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But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypothesis ; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical,... 
