 | Margaret J. Osler, Paul Lawrence Farber - 2002 - 372 oldal
...strong. It is both instruction and warning to see him read Newton so neatly into this perspective. Hitherto I have not been able to discover the cause...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame (feign) no hypotheses. For whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis,... | |
 | Charles E. Hummel - 1986 - 300 oldal
...assumed or supposed without any experimental proof."14 Newton then added his famous pronouncement: But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame [feign] no hypotheses, for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis,... | |
 | Peter Achinstein - 1991 - 346 oldal
...properties he attributes to it (eg, it varies with the quantity of matter contained in bodies), he has not been able to discover the cause of those properties...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses [hypotheses non fingo]; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called an hypothesis;... | |
 | Luco Johan van den Brom - 1993 - 340 oldal
...postulate which is in itself really incomprehensible56. He '5 Newton, Principles, 545. 56 Principles, 547: 'But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses'; cf. Van der Hoeven, Newton, 74f. In other words: Newton operationalizes the notion of gravity as action... | |
 | Thomas Christensen - 2004 - 350 oldal
...satisfied to observe the effects of gravity and deduce from them his inverse-square law of attraction: 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 from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and... | |
 | Richard S. Westfall - 1994 - 356 oldal
...square of the distance. "But hitherto," he proceeded, in one of his most frequendy 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... | |
 | Harald Fritzsch - 1994 - 318 oldal
...composed; and in receding from the Sun decreases accurately as the inverse square of the distance . . . But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses [in the Latin original, the famous expression Hypotheses non fingo appears here]; for whatever is not... | |
 | Michael R. Matthews - 1994 - 312 oldal
...centres of the sun and planets, without suffering the least diminution of its force. . . . But hitherto 1 have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and 1 frame no hypotheses . . . to us it is enough thai gravity does really exist, and act according to... | |
 | Tom Sorell - 1996 - 420 oldal
...scientific theories be grounded on experiment and observation. Indeed, Newton's famous pronouncement that "I have not been able to discover the cause of those...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses" reflects the British scientific community's wholesale repudiation of Hobbes's methodology.26 Ignored... | |
 | Jacques Roger - 1997 - 524 oldal
...is indeed independent of the theory, and that is the force of impulse." But what force is it? Once *"But hitherto I have not been able to discover the...gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses . . ." (Principia, General Scholium, in Newton 1966, II, p. 547). The sentence "I frame no hypotheses"... | |
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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,... 
