 | Norwood Russell Hanson - 1963 - 266 oldal
...Inference (Cambridge University Press, London, 1957), 2nd ed 11. PAGE 86 1 Cf. Principia, Conclusion : ' I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity. . .it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according to the laws we have explained.' 2... | |
 | Lewis White Beck - 1966 - 332 oldal
...composed ; and in receding from the sun decreases accurately in the duplicate proportion of the distances as far as the orb of Saturn, as evidently appears...discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phaenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phaenomena is to be called... | |
 | Charles Coulston Gillispie - 1960 - 596 oldal
...the second edition (1713) of the Principia. The penultimate paragraph works up to the austere rebuke: "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and [in the translation newly established by Koyré] I feign no hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced... | |
 | Henry G. van Leeuwen - 1970 - 188 oldal
...to its nature or causes. In the General Scholium added to that edition he still had to admit: "... hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; ... and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, have no place in experimental philosophy." 56... | |
 | J. S. Bromley - 1970 - 992 oldal
...Scholium to Bk m, with the famous passage making it clear that he would not be driven into speculations: 'hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause...those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses* (Cajori edn. p. 547). ' On the philosophy of Leibniz see vol. v, ch. rv; for George... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1977 - 192 oldal
...he had explained the phenomena by means of gravity, but he had not explained the cause of gravity, "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 deduced from the phaenomena is to be called... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - 1985 - 402 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...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses.25 To be sure, Newton can be said to have given a causal explanation of the tides, as follows:... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1983 - 934 oldal
...square of the distance. "But hitherto," he proceeded, in one of his most frequently quoted passages, "I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I feign no hypotheses . . . And to us it is enough that gravity does really exist, and act according... | |
 | Alexander Sissel Kohanski - 1984 - 352 oldal
...hitherto we have explained the phenomena of the heavens and of our sea by the power of gravity. . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...those properties of gravity from phenomena . . . [and] whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis.2*1 Now it is in connection... | |
 | Abdus Salam, Z. Hassan, C. H. Lai - 1984 - 392 oldal
...a "sleep-walker". Kepler was followed by Newton, who washed his hands of the entire search for WHY; "But hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause of ... gravity from phenomena and I frame no hypotheses . . . Hypothesis . . . has no place in experimental... | |
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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,... 
