But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses: for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis ; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical,... A History of Science - 249. oldalszerző: Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 227 oldalTeljes nézet - Információ erről a könyvről
| Roger Ariew, Eric Watkins - 2000 - 326 oldal
...able to deduce the reason for these properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no h}potheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical,... | |
| Susan M. Felch, Paul J. Contino - 2001 - 276 oldal
..."Hitherto we have explained the phenomena of heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity. . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses,- for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis,- and hypotheses,... | |
| Giora Hon, Sam S. Rakover - 2001 - 372 oldal
...power. In a well known passage in the Principia, the General Scholium, Newton stated explicitly that, hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses,... | |
| Jean Borella - 2001 - 248 oldal
...for this difference is that Galileo and the denial of the theophanic world falls between them. 21. "I have not been able to discover the cause of those...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses" (Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, General Scholium). Koyre (Du monde clos... | |
| Jean-Claude Pecker - 2001 - 616 oldal
...heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity, but we have not yet assigned a cause of its power" ... "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of these properties of gravity for phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses" ... "and hypotheses, whether... | |
| David C. Cassidy, Gerald Holton, F. James Rutherford - 2002 - 857 oldal
...mechanisms. In a famous passage that he added in the second edition of the Principia (1713), Newton declared: Hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis; and hypotheses,... | |
| Corey Powell - 2003 - 290 oldal
...attraction that could travel unfettered through empty space and pull disparate worlds together. "I have not been able to discover the cause of those...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
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